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Media Life

ISBN: 978-0-745-64999-3

August 2012

Polity

256 pages

Description
Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.

Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open source, identities are - like websites - always under construction, and where private life is lived in public forever more.

Ultimately, media are to us as water is to fish. The question is: how can we live a good life in media like fish in water? Media Life offers a compass for the way ahead.

About the Author
Mark Deuze is Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.
Features
  • An innovative textbook introducing students to media and society from the starting point that our lives are now intertwined with media.
  • Based on a large introductory course and developed with beginning students in mind.
  • Introduces both traditional forms of media and digital technologies and shows how they are converging.
  • Written by an energetic, internationally-renowned author.