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Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, Traditions, Arguments
Nick Couldry,Andreas Hepp +1 more
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In this article, the authors provide some context for the emergence of "mediatization" as a key theoretical concept for contemporary media and communications research, and offer some reasons why it now deserves the full attention of scholars of communication theory.Abstract:
Why ‘mediatization’ as a topic for communication theory now? This rather ungainly word has been rising in prominence for the past decade, but many readers of this journal may still want to ask: What does it mean? What does it add to communications theory? And is it necessary at all? The purpose of this introduction to the special issue – apart from introducing and summarizing the articles that follow – is to provide some context for the emergence of ‘mediatization’ as a key theoretical concept for contemporary media and communications research, and to offer some reasons why it now deserves the full attention of scholars of communication theory.read more
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Mediatization: theorizing the interplay between media, culture and society
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that Deacon and Stanyer's article "Mediatization: Key Concept or Conceptual Bandwagon?" does not capture the complex relationship between changes in media and communication, on the one hand, and changes in various fields of culture and society on the other.
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Mediatization: key concept or conceptual bandwagon?
David Deacon,James Stanyer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three areas of concern, namely, how causal processes are thought about, how historical change is understood, and how concepts are designed, and it is hoped this article will generate critical debate and reflection to prevent the term from being applied so inconsistently and indiscriminately that it becomes a concept of no difference.
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Media Practices, Mediation Processes, and Mediatization in the Study of Social Movements
Alice Mattoni,Emiliano Treré +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the use of three concepts of media studies (media practices, mediation, and mediatization) in order to build a conceptual framework to study social movements and the media.
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Toward a Model of Meme Diffusion (M3D)
TL;DR: The purpose of this synthesis is to provide a heuristic framework for organizing manifold investigations into the roles that new media are playing in the diffusion of ideas in cyberspace and real space and to stimulate new theory development in the fields of big data and new media.
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Three tasks for mediatization research: contributions to an open agenda
TL;DR: Based on the interdisciplinary experience of a Swedish research committee, the authors discusses critical conceptual issues raised by the current debate on mediatization, a concept that holds great importance in Swedish research.
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann +1 more
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The Theory of Communicative Action
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What Is Wrong with Social Theory
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"Mediatization" of Politics: A Challenge for Democracy?
TL;DR: The growing intrusion of media into the political domain in many countries has led critics to worry about the approach of the "media-driven republic," in which mass media will usurp the functions of political institutions in the liberal state.