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Book SynopsisIn light of the crisis surrounding traditional media and the radical changes resulting from the advent of the Internet and the social media, various media outlets have argued, or more subtly, hinted at the demise of the printed news, or the end of traditional media. This backdrop forms the genesis for this thought-provoking and provocative volume for imagining life without media.
While there is some skepticism toward the radical hypothesis of the death of the media, there is mounting concern, at the same time, regarding the changing media space(s) and the relevance of the media's roles and places in different and diverse social spheres. Unanimously, contributors report that while these roles and places have changed, the difficulty lies in where and how to delineate them. The chapters provide some answers to the hypothesis of life without media, and in many instances raise new questions and doubts.
Table of ContentsContents: Eva Comas/Joan Cuenca/Klaus Zilles: Introduction: Life Without Media – Mark Brewin: The Public Sphere in a Network Age: Rethinking the Relations Between Self, Media, and Political Community – Nick Couldry: Life Without Media: Or, Why Mediacentrism Is Bad for You – Richard Maxwell/Toby Miller: Life Without Democracy, Life Without Citizenship, Life Without Media – David Buckingham: Life Without Markets? Childhood and Consumer Culture – Jordi Busquet/Ana Cinthya Uribe: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Digital Divide Among Adults and Teenagers: Initial Theoretical Considerations Around a Supposed Generational Conflict – Michel Walrave/Wannes Heirman/Ellen Van Gool: Connecting and Protecting? Adolescents, Social Network Sites, and Privacy – James Moir: Hyperreal Higher Education - Mediated Life and Death in Arts and Entertainment – Martin Lüthe: «Infinite Deaths»: The Death of and by the Media in David Foster Wallace’s
Infinite Jest – Jenine Abboushi: The Big Screen in the Transnational Novel – María Lamuedra Graván: Life Without a «Liberal Representative» Journalism: Towards a Professional Deontology with a Deliberative Turn – Kathy Matilla/Guillem Marca: Issues Management as a Mediated Activity in a Changing Media Sphere.
