Personal Media and Everyday Life [electronic resource] : A Networked Lifeworld /
Rasmussen, T.author.
This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced individualization and rationalization of the lifeworld, discussing the dramatic mediatization of daily life and calling on theorists such as McLuhan, Habermas and Goffman.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: Personal Media; Writing, talking, watching; Modes of personal media; Autonomy and ambivalence; 2 Encircling the Person; Writing/reading; Writing with software; It's only about communication now; Tertiary orality; Talking/listening; Watching; Individualisation; Media of Self; Media of self-presentation; Extended familiarity; 3 A Networked Lifeworld; Everyday life; Lifeworld in modernity; The Lifeworld Today; Domestication as personalisation; Everyday tactics; Relative distance; 4 Communication inPersonal Media
The interpersonal in the mediaThe 'communicative turn'; Luhmann on communication; Plurality of communication forms; 5 Personal Media Theory; McLuhan; Modes of mediation; Undermining representation?; Situated simulation; Convenient media; 6 Social Capital and Social Media; Elements of social capital; Capital in personal media; Investing in the mobile as 'Link-up'; Skills; Capital dynamics in social media; The problem of trust; Resource distribution; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced individualization and rationalization of the lifeworld, discussing the dramatic mediatization of daily life and calling on theorists such as McLuhan, Habermas and Goffman.
Families.
Families—Social aspects.
Communication.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Culture.
Cultural studies.
Family.
Media Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Social Theory.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural Studies.