Mediatized Worlds Culture and Society in a Media Age

How does the media influence our everyday lives? In which ways do our social worlds change when they interact with media? And what are the consequences for theorizing media and communication? Starting with questions like these, Mediatized Worlds discusses the transformation of our lives by their increasing mediatization. The chapters cover topics such as rethinking mediatization, mediatized communities, the mediatization of private lives and of organizational contexts, and the future perspective for mediatization research. The empirical studies offer new access to questions of mediatization – an access that grounds mediatization in life-world and social-world perspectives.

Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communications Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, Germany. He is co-initiator and investigator of the research program 'Mediatized Worlds'.
 
Friedrich Krotz is Professor of Media and Communications Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, Germany. He is coordinator, initiator and investigator of the research program 'Mediatized Worlds'.

Contents
1. Introduction; Andreas Hepp and Friedrich Krotz
PART I: RETHINKING MEDIATIZATION
2. Mediatized Stories in Mediatized Worlds; Knut Lundby
3. Culturalizing Mediatization; Johan Fornäs
4. When Mediatization Hits the Ground; Nick Couldry
5. Media, Mediatization and Mediatized Worlds. A Discussion of Basic Concepts; Friedrich Krotz
PART II: MEDIATIZATION AND NEW MEDIA
6. Mediatized Connectivity. Historical Traits of Telephony and Theoretical Considerations about a New Dispositive of Communication; Thomas Steinmaurer
7. Intensifying Mediatization: Everyware Media and James Miller
8. From Mediation to Mediatization: The Institutionalization of New Media; Stig Hjarvard
PART III: MEDIATIZED COMMUNITIES
9. Benedict in Berlin. The Mediatization of Religion; Hubert Knoblauch
10. Technology, Place and Mediatized Cosmopolitanism; Miyase Christensen
11. Mediatized Worlds of Communitization; Andreas Hepp, Matthias Berg and Cindy Roitsch
PART IV: MEDIATIZATION AND PRIVATE LIFE
12. Media Life and the Mediatization of the Lifeworld; Mark Deuze
13. Media Love: Intimacy in Mediatized Worlds; John Storey, Katy McDonald
14. The Meaning of Home in the Context of Digitization, Mobilization and Mediatization; Corinna Peil and Jutta Röser
PART V: MEDIATIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS
15. Mediatized Politics – Structures and Strategies of Discursive Participation and Online Deliberation on Twitter; Caja Thimm, Mark Dang-Anh and Jessica Einspänner
16. The Quantified Listener: Reshaping Providers and Audiences with Calculated Measurements; Jan-H. Passoth, Tilmann Sutter and Josef Wehner
17. Schools as Mediatized Worlds from a Cross-Cultural Perspective; Andreas Breiter
PART VI: CONCLUSION
18. Mediatization: Concluding Thoughts and Challenges for the Future; Lynn Schofield Clark