Three tasks for mediatization research: contributions to an open agenda
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Three tasks for mediatization research : contributions to an open agenda. / Ekstrøm, Mats; Fornäs, Johan; Jansson, André; Jerslev, Anne.
I: Media, Culture & Society, Bind 38, Nr. 7, 2016, s. 1090-1108.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Three tasks for mediatization research
T2 - contributions to an open agenda
AU - Ekstrøm, Mats
AU - Fornäs, Johan
AU - Jansson, André
AU - Jerslev, Anne
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Based on the interdisciplinary experience of a Swedish research committee, this article discusses critical conceptual issues raised by the current debate on mediatization – a concept that holds great potential to constitute a space for synthesized understandings of media-related social transformations. In contrast to other, more metaphorical constructions, mediatization can be studied empirically in systematic ways through various sub-processes that together provide a complex picture of how culture and everyday life evolve in times of media saturation. The first part of this article argues that mediatization researchers have sometimes formulated too grand claims as to mediatization’s status as a unitary approach, a meta-theory or a paradigm. Such claims have led to problematic confusions around the concept and should be abandoned in favour of a more open agenda. In line with such a call for openness, the second part of the article introduces historicity, specificity and measurability as three transdisciplinary and transparadigmatic tasks for the contemporary mediatization research agenda.
AB - Based on the interdisciplinary experience of a Swedish research committee, this article discusses critical conceptual issues raised by the current debate on mediatization – a concept that holds great potential to constitute a space for synthesized understandings of media-related social transformations. In contrast to other, more metaphorical constructions, mediatization can be studied empirically in systematic ways through various sub-processes that together provide a complex picture of how culture and everyday life evolve in times of media saturation. The first part of this article argues that mediatization researchers have sometimes formulated too grand claims as to mediatization’s status as a unitary approach, a meta-theory or a paradigm. Such claims have led to problematic confusions around the concept and should be abandoned in favour of a more open agenda. In line with such a call for openness, the second part of the article introduces historicity, specificity and measurability as three transdisciplinary and transparadigmatic tasks for the contemporary mediatization research agenda.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - everyday life
KW - history
KW - measurability
KW - media studies
KW - mediatization
KW - research policy
U2 - 10.1177/0163443716664857
DO - 10.1177/0163443716664857
M3 - Journal article
VL - 38
SP - 1090
EP - 1108
JO - Media, Culture & Society
JF - Media, Culture & Society
SN - 0163-4437
IS - 7
ER -
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