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Title Mediatization(s) : theoretical conversations between Europe and Latin America / edited by Carlos A. Scolari, José L. Fernández and Joan R. Rodríguez-Amat
Published Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 212 pages.)
Contents Cover -- Mediatization(s) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map -- Introduction: Resuming the Conversation -- A fragmented disciplinary field: An early colourful map -- General approaches to mediatizations -- Applied approaches to mediatizations -- Not all that are, are here. But all here, are -- 1 Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, Traditions, Arguments -- The contexts of the concept -- Two traditions of mediatization research -- 2 Looking beyond the Field: Development of the Mediatization Research Agenda
3 Mediation and Reception: Some Theoretical and Methodological Connections in Latin American Communication Studies -- Starting points -- The concept of mediation -- Methodological maps of mediation: From cultural mediation of communication to communicative mediation of culture -- The debate on mediation and mediatization -- 4 Mediated Perception and the Mediatization of Seeing: Perspectives for Researching Visual Communication with a Mediatization Lens -- Introduction -- Mediatization and visualization -- Seeing as a mediatized practice
Concluding reflections on researching visualization from the perspective of mediatization -- 5 Eliseo Verón's Semio-anthropological Concept of Mediatization: Its Relevance for a Historic and Systematic Approach in the Field -- The relevance of Verón's work: A regard from German communication studies -- Verón's semio-pragmatic approach or how to understand mediatized reality -- Mediatization theory and communication anthropology − Understanding the present by the past -- Discussion and heuristic frame
6 Beyond the Theoretical Conversations on the Origins of Mediatizations: A Post-disciplinary Exchange -- Between media ecology and medium theory -- Mediatization theory: Between Europe and Latin-America -- Media evolution1 -- Crossroads -- Beyond the discussion on the origins of mediatization -- 7 'Television, This "Massive" Phenomenon that We Know, Is Condemned to Disappear' -- 8 'Technologies of Communication Are Becoming Media' -- 9 The Web's People: Mediatization and Transformation of the Political Sphere -- Introduction -- Conditions of mediatization -- The transformation of visibility
The management of visibility: Genres and formats -- Semiosis and mediatization -- Why are we a people? -- Extreme personalization: The handwritten letter -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10 'Travel like a Local': The Mediatization of Alternative City Tourism, and Its Social Consequences -- Prelude: Snapshots from the world of alternative tourism apps -- Three points concerning the ontology of mediatization -- Unpacking the affordances of alternative tourism apps -- The colonization of urban -- Concluding remarks -- NOTE -- REFERENCES
Summary Introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America in the last two decades. It frames these theories within the context of communication and media theories, and maps the current field of mediatization focussing on the most recent and cutting-edge theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Mass media -- Social aspects -- Europe
Mass media -- Social aspects -- Latin America
Mass media and culture -- Europe
Mass media and culture -- Latin America
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Mass media and culture
Mass media -- Social aspects
Europe
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Scolari, Carlos Alberto, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9781789383690
1789383692
9781789383683
1789383684