Media Life

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Media Life

Mark Deuze

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.

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