[Commlist] New Book: "Deep Mediatization"

*New Book: "Deep Mediatization" by Andreas Hepp*
Published by Routledge

*This book takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in 
media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.*

Often, such questions are discussed in isolation losing sight of the 
overarching context in which they are situated. Andreas Hepp has 
developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and 
their infrastructures and provides an understanding of how profound 
today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, 
organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in 
the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of 
media-related change, instead it raises the normative challenge of what 
deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a 
“good life” for all.

Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep 
mediatization to students of media and cultural studies as well as 
neighbouring disciplines like sociology, political science and other 
cognate disciplines.

José van Dijck (Utrecht U) says: “Andreas Hepp’s new book provides a 
profound and ‘deep’ reflection on how digital technologies have 
penetrated all aspects of our daily lives. His critical reflections 
cover not just the mediatization of institutions and infrastructures, 
but also of social and symbolic interactions. Scaffolded by quantitative 
and qualitative evidence, his argument that we are ushered into a new 
era of ‘deep mediatization’ is very convincing. Invaluable reading 
for anyone grappling with a global information order.”

Karin Gwinn Wilkins (U Miami) writes: “With previous work by Hepp, 
Couldry and others we witness an essential conceptualization of 
mediatization that helps us understand contemporary communication 
landscapes. With this new edition, Hepp elaborates this framework in 
critical ways, reminding us that digital media more than channel our 
communication, but also create and reinforce new information, through 
our cultural practices, societal infrastructures, and 
institutional parameters. This is a powerful treatise, thoughtfully 
building on the most relevant and promising scholarship toward a 
positioning of communication theory that offers a significant 
critical argument on our most contemporary and concerning communication 
practices.”

Silvio Waisbord (George Washington U) recommends: “Andreas Hepp has 
written a state-of-the-art, nuanced argument about the power of 
mediatization. Blending sociological sophistication and a critical eye, 
Hepp demonstrates the multiple and dynamics dimensions of mediatization. 
This book should be mandatory for media scholars grappling with how the 
media have transformed contemporary societies.”

And Fred Turner (Stanford U) comments: "With Deep Mediatization, Andreas 
Hepp gives us a way to slip beneath the choppy surface of contemporary 
media and to see currents of social change that are stronger, older, and 
longer-lasting than many of us have imagined. This is 
social oceanography at its finest.“

Further information on the publisher's website: 
https://www.routledge.com/Deep-Mediatization-1st-Edition/Hepp/p/book/9781138024991

/Hepp, Andreas (2020): Deep Mediatization. Key Ideas in Media & Cultural 
Studies. Routledge, 248 pages, 8 B/W illustrations, 24.99 GBP/


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