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Media studies for a mediatized world: rethinking media and social space
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Abstract This editorial introduces a thematic issue on "Rethinking Media and Social Space". By critically rethinking the relationship between media and social space this issue takes initial steps towards ensuring that media studies is appropriate for a mediatized world. Contemporary societies are permeated b... view more
This editorial introduces a thematic issue on "Rethinking Media and Social Space". By critically rethinking the relationship between media and social space this issue takes initial steps towards ensuring that media studies is appropriate for a mediatized world. Contemporary societies are permeated by media that play important roles in how people maneuver and position themselves in the social world. Yet, analyses of media-related social change too often fail to engage with the complex and situated nature of power relations. This editorial highlights three enduring problems: (1) the annihilation of the socially structured and structuring role of media technologies and practices; (2) the conflation of inherent social capacities of media technologies and discourses with existing mediations of power, and (3) the reduction of social space to one predominant dimension which overshadows all other forms of social power that media technologies, discourses, and practices are part of. As a response to these problems -and in bringing together the arguments of the five articles included in the thematic issue- this editorial calls for sociologized approaches to media technologies, discourses, and practices.... view less
Keywords
media; research; social space; practice; sociology; mediatization; media technology; discourse; power
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 1-4
Journal
Media and Communication, 6 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Rethinking media and social space
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i2.1495
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; reviewed