Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach

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Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach contributes to a complex, situated and critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life. The book explores the tension between the extended capabilities offered by media technology and growing media reliance, focusing particularly on mobile middle-class lives. It problematizes how mediatization is culturally legitimized in our times, when connectivity and mobility are increasingly seen as mandatory elements of self-realization. Supported by extensive fieldwork carried out in contexts of gentrification, elite cosmopolitanism and post-tourism, André Jansson advances a critical, cultural materialist perspective of mediatization as he examines how people are torn between the new opportunities afforded by their mobile lives and the feeling of being trapped by our connected media culture. Mediatization and Mobile Lives offers an engaging and critical exploration of the interplay between mediatization, individualization and globalization, making it an ideal resource for students and scholars of Media and Communication. Cover Page Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Figure Table Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introducing Critical Mediatization Research The dialectic of mediatization Current transformations of media society Analysing mobile lives Outline of the book Note Part 1 A Cultural Materialist Perspective of Mediatization Chapter 2 Mediatization is Ordinary Where is cultural critique in mediatization research? Williams: Mediatization through ordinary culture Bourdieu: Mediatization through communicational doxa Conclusion: Mediatization as cultural critique Chapter 3 Why are Media Indispensable? Media technics Media properties Media textures Conclusion: Three forms of media dependence Chapter 4 Social Recognition and Status in a Mediatized World Mediatization and organized self-realization Recognition and hospitality in a mobile society The production of hospitable media spaces The cultural ambiguities of mobile middle-class identities Conclusion: Bridging recognition theory and cultural materialism Part 2 Inside Mobile Lives Chapter 5 Mediatization and EliteCosmopolitanism Mobility, place and cosmopolitan self-identities Understanding the trajectories of elite cosmopolitans The indirect force of mediatization Media dependence and the osmotic expansion of doxa Conclusion: Mediatization as a problematization of privilege Chapter 6 Mediatization and Post-Tourism Urban exploration as post-tourism Site-discovery Camera-work Storytelling Conclusion: Mediatization as a force of reflexivity Chapter 7 Mediatization and Gentrification Putting media into the gentrification debate Elective belonging as a mediatized structure of feeling Contrasts and enclosures in urban gentrification Topophilia and exitability in provincial gentrification Conclusion: Mediatization as a mobility regime Chapter 8 Rethinking Mediatization, Mobility and Social Power A critical bottom-up perspective Mediatization and counter-mediatization Mediatization, globalization and struggles for autonomy Note References Index