What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about everything and anything important via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasingly connected by digital media? And what is the significance of all this for our everyday lives? Drawing on Hepp s fifteen-year research expertise on media change, this book deals with questions like these in a refreshingly straightforward and readable way. Cultures of mediatization are described as cultures whose main resources are mediated by technical media. Therefore, everyday life in cultures of mediatization is moulded by the media. To understand this challenging media change it is inappropriate to focus on any one single medium like television, the press, mobile phones, the Internet or other forms of digital media. One has to capture the mediatization of culture in its entirety. Cultures of Mediatization outlines how this can be done critically. In so doing, it offers a new way of thinking about our present-day media-saturated world.

What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phoneswherever we are and at all times? What are the culturalconsequences if we are informed about 'everything andanything important' via television? How are our politicalreligious and ethnic belongings impacted through being increasinglyconnected by digital media? And what is the significance of allthis for our everyday lives?Drawing on Hepp's fifteen-year research expertise on mediachange, this book deals with questions like these in a refreshinglystraightforward and readable way. 'Cultures ofmediatization' are described as cultures whose main resourcesare mediated by technical media. Therefore, everyday life incultures of mediatization is 'moulded' by themedia.To understand this challenging media change it is inappropriateto focus on any one single medium like television, the pressmobile phones, the Internet or other forms of digital media. Onehas to capture the 'mediatization' of culture in itsentirety. Cultures of Mediatization outlines how this can bedone critically. In so doing, it offers a new way of thinking aboutour present-day media-saturated world.

Detailed Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. What Media Culture Is (Not)3. The Mediatization of Culture4. Cultures of Mediatization and Mediatized Worlds5. Communatization within Cultures of Mediatization6. Studying Cultures of Mediatization7. ProspectReferencesIndex