By Mark Deuze
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Customer tags: media studies, philosophy, society, media, social theory, social networks, media theory
Review & Description
Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. "Media Life" is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. This book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open source, identities are - like websites - always under construction, and where private life is lived in public forever more. Ultimately, media are to us as water is to fish. The question is: how can we live a good life in media like fish in water? "Media Life" offers a compass for the way ahead. Read more
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