The aim of this article is to explore the use of 3 concepts of media studies—media practices,
mediation, and mediatization—in order to build a conceptual framework to study social …

This chapter reviews the mediatisation concept, which has recently made a strong impact in
media and communication studies, particularly in the field of political communication but …

This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing
multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

This paper presents findings from a study of Instagram use and funerary practices that
analysed photographs shared on public profiles tagged with '# funeral'. We found that the …

In response to Deacon and Stanyer's article 'Mediatization: Key Concept or Conceptual
Bandwagon?'we argue that they build their criticism on a simplified methodology. They …

While fame has existed for centuries, celebrity is inextricably linked to media. This chapter
uses examples from a popular social media technologies to analyze how the particular …

Why ''mediatization''as a topic for communication theory now? This rather ungainly word has
been rising in prominence for the past decade, but many readers of this journal may still …

In this article we propose a concept of network media logic in order to discuss how online
social media platforms change political communication without resorting to technological …