Dear colleagues, More advertising: This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. "Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings. The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook provides the reader with the most current state of mediatization research. Contents Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series v Acknowledgements ix I. Introduction Knut Lundby 1 Mediatization of Communication 3 II. Global changes Karin Knorr Cetina 2 Scopic media and global coordination: the mediatization of face-to-face encounters 39 Risto Kunelius 3 Climate change challenges: an agenda for de-centered mediatization research 63 Wanning Sun 4 Mediatization with Chinese characteristics: political legitimacy, public diplomacy and the new art of propaganda 87 III. The long history Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz 5 Understanding mediatization in “first modernity”: sociological classics and their perspectives on mediated and mediatized societies 109 Friedrich Krotz 6 Mediatization as a mover in modernity: social and cultural change in the context of media change 131 Eliseo Verón 7 Mediatization theory: a semio-anthropological perspective 163 IV. Media in society Göran Bolin 8 Institution, technology, world: relationships between the media, culture, and society 175 Stig Hjarvard 9 Mediatization and cultural and social change: an institutional perspective 199 Nick Couldry 10 Mediatization and the future of field theory 227 V. Movement and interaction Andreas Hepp and Uwe Hasebrink 11 Human interaction and communicative figurations. The transformation of mediatized cultures and societies 249 André Jansson 12 Indispensable things: on mediatization, materiality, and space 273 Niels Ole Finnemann 13 Digitization: new trajectories of mediatization? 297 Mirca Madianou 14 Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach 323 VI. Power, law and politics Kent Asp 15 Mediatization: rethinking the question of media power 349 Jesper Strömbäck and Frank Esser 16 Mediatization of politics: transforming democracies and reshaping politics 375 Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud, Tine Ustad Figenschou and Øyvind Ihlen 17 Mediatization of public bureaucracies 405 Øyvind Ihlen and Josef Pallas 18 Mediatization of corporations 423 Bryna Bogoch and Anat Peleg 19 Law in the age of media logic 443 VII. Art and the popular Jürgen Wilke 20 Art: multiplied mediatization 465 Johan Fornäs 21 Mediatization of popular culture 483 Philip Auslander 22 Barbie in a meat dress: performance and mediatization in the 21st century 505 Kirsten Frandsen 23 Mediatization of sports 525 VIII. Faith and knowledge Mia Lövheim 24 Mediatization and religion 547 Mike S. Schäfer 25 The media in the labs, and the labs in the media: what we know about the mediatization of science 571 Shaun Rawolle and Bob Lingard 26 Mediatization and education: a sociological account 595 IX. To be or not to be Charles M. Ess 27 Selfhood, moral agency, and the good life in mediatized worlds? Perspectives from medium theory and philosophy 617 Maren Hartmann 28 Home is where the heart is? Ontological security and the mediatization of homelessness 641 Andrew Hoskins 29 The mediatization of memory 661 Johanna Sumiala 30 Mediatization of public death 681 X. Critical afterthought Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt 31 Mediatization: an emerging paradigm for media and communication research? 703 Biographical sketches 725 Index 735 Dr. Paul Cobley Professor in Language and Media School of Media and Performing Arts Middlesex University The Burroughs Hendon LONDON NW4 4BT UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. 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