Media Life / Edition 1

by Mark Deuze

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745649993
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	09/24/2012
Series:	DMS - Digital Media and Society Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Mark Deuze is Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.

Table of Contents

Preface: In Media
1. Media Life
2. Media Today
3. What Media Do
4. No Life Outside Media
5. Society in Media
6. Together Alone
7. In Media We Fit
8. Life in Media
References
Endnotes