The Mediatization of Culture and Society

Mediatization represents a new social condition in which the media have emerged as an important institution in society at the same time as they have become integrated into the very fabric of social and cultural life. Making use of a broad conception of the media as technologies, institutions and aesthetic forms, Stig Hjarvard considers how characteristics of both old and new media come to influence human interaction, social institutions and cultural imaginations.

Author: Stig Hjarvard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780415692373

About the Author

Stig Hjarvard, PhD, is Professor and Vice-Chair at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published books and articles on journalism, media and globalization, media and religion, media history and mediatization theory. He is editor of the journal Northern Lights and of the English language books News in a Globalized Society (2001) and Media in a Globalized Society (2003).