The edited volume was published by Palgrave in 2014. It presents outcomes and discussions of the first and second funding phases of the DFG priority research program 1505 "Mediatized Worlds".

Edited by

Andreas Hepp & Friedrich Krotz

About the book

'This volume offers a carefully-evidenced account of how the unfolding media and communication environment contributes to historical transformations across diverse sectors of our society. It should be read by social scientists in many fields to understand how and why mediatization matters to them.'
- Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

How do the media influence our everyday lives? In which ways do our social worlds change when they interact with media? And what are the effects of 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.

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Contents

1. Introduction; Andreas Hepp, 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; 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, 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, 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, Jessica Einspänner
16. The Quantified Listener: Reshaping Providers and Audiences with Calculated Measurements; Jan-H. Passoth, Tilmann Sutter, 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