The third synthesises Silverstone s conceptions of the media process, experience and technology laid out thus far, organising the synthesis around the themes of play , performance , and consumption . In section four, the focus slides wider to raise questions about mediation in domestic, community, and global contexts. Section five draws the expansive themes of the book together to propose an agenda for, as I see it, a political economy of media. In the end. The power the media have to set an agenda.
Mediation is a human experience, and an important one.
It is also a human product. Issues and discourses of the private and public shift and blur because of mediated experience. The rationale is broad, abstract, and seemingly vague. The whole book raises questions of this kind. One of its more diabolical features is that it answers those questions, but in a way that raises even more questions.