Title: Media governance and technology: From “code is law” to governance constellations
Abstract: Social communication has always been realized to a large degree through media technologies.
Since the end of the twentieth century, however, information and communication technologies
(ICTs) are increasingly tangled up with our everyday social interactions and structures. We no
longer turn to distinct media products like newspapers or television channels to experience
mediated communication; our everyday life is deeply embedded within media. Krotz (2007) and
others have coined the term “mediatization” to describe this process. “Contemporary society,”
argues Hjarvard, “is permeated by the media, to an extent that the media, may no longer be
conceived of as being separate from cultural and other institutions” (2008: 105). Deuze (2012)
even speaks plainly of a “media life” that we are living-not with media, but rather in media.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-04
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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