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Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, Traditions, Arguments: Editorial

Couldry, Nick, Hepp, Andreas·2013·Communication Theory
DOI 10.1111/comt.12019
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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 want to ask: What does it mean? What does it add to communications theory? And is it necessary at all? The purpose of this introduction to the special issue—apart from introducing and summarizing the articles that follow—is to provide some context for the emergence of “mediatization” as a key theoretical concept for contemporary media and communications research, and to offer some reasons why it now deserves the full attention of scholars of communication theory. The word “mediatization” does indeed strike an odd note to the ears of native English speakers, provoking the immediate reaction: Why is such an awkward formulation needed? But we are long past the point in communications research when the instincts of native English speakers should have priority! A fully institutionalized field of communications research has a pressing need for common terms that can orientate researchers from many countries and geolinguistic regions toward shared problems and areas of inquiry. As Sonia Livingstone (2009) explained in her ICA Presidential address in Montreal in 2008, “mediatization”—or in German: Mediatisierung—is a term with a long and respectable history in German-speaking countries. More important, it has emerged as the most likely “winner” in a race between many terms, all cumbersome or ambiguous to varying degrees—mediazation, medialization, mediation—that have been coined to capture somehow the broad consequences for everyday life and practical organization (social, political, cultural, economic) of media, and more particularly of the pervasive spread of media contents and platforms through all types of context and practice. Put simply, something is going on with media in our lives, and it is deep enough not to be reached simply by accumulating more and more specific studies that analyze this newspaper, describe how that program was produced, or trace how particular audiences make sense of that film on a particular occasion.

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Authors
Couldry, N., & Hepp, A.
Venue
Communication Theory
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2013-07-08
Volume
23
Issue
3
Pages
191-202
ISSN
1050-3293 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/comt.12019
OpenAlex
W2160619691
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757
References
38
FWCI
119.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
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