CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Old Media, Popular Publications, Electrical Telegraph
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Critiques: ontological assumptions, data: limitations, theories for understanding and critique. Change as gradual (but not linear): (deep) mediatization (e. g. couldy & hepp, 2017). Thompson (2020): interactional theory of communication (see goffman). There are two ways to present historical change: succussion of (old by newer) media technologies, see medium, waves of mediatization, couldry & hepp (2017): cumulative enfolding of communications within the social world, successive and overlapping (aggregate of media). Increasing complexity and individualised use: media manifold. ": new media are often seen as overtaking old media, example: the print industry (newspaper) industry will be destroyed by e- reading. Deepening of mediatization: increased reliance of all social processes on infrastructures of communication on scales up to the global yet no global uniformity. Mediatization: once mediation begins to have social and cultural effects, dialectical process: example: the pandemic increased the mediatization. Things that were previously not done online, are now happening online. Apply the above dimensions to what you know about datafication.
