Mediatization of communication
By: edited by Knut Lundby
Series: Handbooks of communication science -- 21
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9783110271935; 9783110272215
Subjects: Mass media; Social aspects; Communication; Social change; Social interaction
Description: This handbook searches for dynamic encounters between researchers with different approaches to processes of mediatization, fostering a variety of definitions of and discussion about this contested concept. The editorial range includes scholars who have applied the term 'mediatization' (or the related 'medialization', 'mediazation' - or 'mediation' in the meaning of socio-cultural change or transformation related to the media).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.