Media Life (eBook)

Mark Deuze is Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.

Preface: In Media
1. Media Life
2. Media Today
3. What Media Do
4. No Life Outside Media
5. Society in Media
6. Together Alone
7. In Media We Fit
8. Life in Media
References
Endnotes

"Media Life is a daring, provocative and mindful
analysis of the many ways in which media have become an irreducible
component of the social. It is written in a very approachable
style, presented in an impeccable typographic design, and is
impressive in its scope of concepts, terminologies, and the body of
examples from market research, art and popular
culture."

Christoph Raetzsch, Digital Journalism

"Draws on a wide array of sometimes sharply original ideas about
both entrapment and opportunity, organizing them vigorously and
often with wit."

European Journal of Communication

"This innovative interpretation of our relationship to media is
both coherent and the fruit of much thought. It contains the
promise of a long-sought-for new paradigm to replace the original
causal-linear model of mass communication."

Denis McQuail, University of Amsterdam

"Media Life is a fresh and inspiring book, dense in
original ideas and intuitions. It is an outstanding book to read,
to study, to cite, to have on the shelves of your library, to lend
to friends, to suggest to students, and to think about when you
yourself take part in media life."

Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine

"In Media Life Mark Deuze gives us an immediate sense of
the embedded, interconnected, and multi-modal character and
necessity of media in contemporary life. It is also a window into
the next generation of communication research and scholarship,
where the familiar divides between channel and content,
interpersonal interaction and mediated communication, the personal,
the institutional, and the systemic will fade and reconfigure. Just
as we cannot not communicate, today we cannot not mediate. An
indispensable tour of the emerging boundaries of media
studies."

Leah Lievrouw, University of California Los Angeles