Survival of the mediated

Deuze, Mark

doi:10.5334/csci.33

Abstract

Departing from a perspective of life as lived in rather than with media, this paper articulates the evolutionary context for people's near-complete immersion in media. Using examples such as the appropriation of the movie "Avatar" by activists around the world it is argued how our orientation to media provides adaptive advantage in contemporary postgeographical society.

References

Aguado, J.M. (2009). Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media. Empedocles 1(1), 59-74. Available: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/doi/abs/10.1386/ejpc.1.1.59/1
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Bil'in Popular Committee (12 February 2010). Bil'in weekly demonstration reenacts the Avatar film. Available: http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/testimonies/Bilin-weekly-demonstration-reenacts-the-Avatar-film
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Butler, S. (13 June 1863). Darwin among the Machines - To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Available: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Clarke, A.C. (1964). Profiles of the future. New York: Bantam.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Deuze, M. (2007). Media Work. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Duncombe, S. (2007). Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. New York: New Press.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Friesen, N., Hug, T. (2009). The Mediatic Turn: Exploring Consequences for Media Pedagogy. In: K. Lundby (Ed.). Mediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences, pp. 64-81. New York: Peter Lang. Available: http://learningspaces.org/n/papers/Media_Pedagogy_&_Mediatic_Turn.pdf
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Garnham, N. (1997). Amartya Sen's Capabilities Approach to the Evaluation of Welfare: Its Application to Communications. Javnost/The Public 4(4), 25-34.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hartley, John (2007) ‘There are other ways of being in the truth’: The uses of multimedia literacy. International Journal of Cultural Studies 10(1), 135-144.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hjarvard, S. (2004). The Globalization of Language: How the Media Contribute to the Spread of English and the Emergence of Medialects. Nordicom Review 25(1-2), 75-97.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hjardvard, S. (2008). The Mediatization of Society: A Theory of the Media as Agents of Social and Cultural Change. Nordicom Review 29(2), 105-134.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Jenkins, H. (2010). Avatar Activism. Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2010. Available: http://mondediplo.com/2010/09/15avatar
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Chicago: MacArthur Foundation. Available: http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/{7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E}/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
John, J.L., Rowlands, I., Williams, P., Dean, K. (2010). Digital lives: personal digital archives for the 21st century - an initial synthesis. Digital Lives Research Paper, Beta version 0.2. Available: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital_lives/2010/02/digital-lives-synthesis.html
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kozloff, N. (11 May 2010). Talking the Amazon rainforest with Avatar's James Cameron. Mongabay.com. Available: http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0511-kozloff_avatar.html
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kurzweil, R. (2005). The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Viking.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Luhmann, N. (2000 [1996]) The reality of the mass media. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mesoudi, A. (2010). Evolutionary Synthesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Cultural Science 3(1), 1-13. Available: http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/view/35/109
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Meyrowitz, J. (1998). Multiple media literacies. Journal of Communication 48(1), 96–108.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Offray de La Mettrie, J. (1748). Man a machine. Available: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/LaMettrie/Machine
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Punie, Y., Bogdanowicz, M., Berg, A., Pauwels, C., Burgelman, J. (2003). Living and Working in the Information Society: Quality of Life in a Digital World. EMTEL Final Deliverable. Available: http://fiste.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/detail.cfm?prs=1125
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Robins, K., Webster, F. (1999). Times of the Technoculture: from the Information Society to the Virtual Life. London (etc.): Routledge.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rothenbuhler, E. (2009). Continuities: Communicative form and institutionalization. In K. Lundby (Ed.), Mediatization: Concept, changes, consequences , pp. 277-292. New York: Peter Lang.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Spencer, H. (1851). Social Statics. London: John Chapman, 1851. Available: http://files.libertyfund.org/files/273/0331_Bk.pdf
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Thacker, E. (2004). Biomedia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Weigel, M., Straughn, C. (2009). Multiple Worlds: Adolescents, New Digital Media, and Shifts in Habits of Mind. GoodWork® Project Report Series , Number 63. Cambridge: Harvard University. Available: http://pzpublications.com/417pdf.html
Search in Google Scholar Back to article

Survival of the mediated

Abstract

Paradigm

My account