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Mediatization: key concept or conceptual bandwagon?
journal contribution
posted on 2014-11-04, 14:30 authored by David DeaconDavid Deacon, James StanyerJames StanyerMediatization is emerging as an influential new concept that places the media at the centre of all kinds of important cultural, political and social developments. However, it has so far attracted little critical evaluation. In this article the authors identify three areas of concern, namely, how causal processes are thought about, how historical change is understood, and how concepts are designed. 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’.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- Communication and Media
Published in
Media, Culture and SocietyVolume
36Issue
7Pages
1032 - 1044Citation
DEACON, D. and STANYER, J., 2014. Mediatization: key concept or conceptual bandwagon? Media, Culture and Society, 36 (7), pp. 1032 - 1044.Publisher
Sage Publications / © The Author(s)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014-08-08Notes
This article was published in the journal, Media, Culture and Society [Sage Publications / © The Author(s)]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443714542218ISSN
0163-4437eISSN
1460-3675Publisher version
Language
- en