Mediatization and Mobile Lives contributes to a complex, situated and critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life.

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Geomedia Research Group at Karlstad University, Sweden. His most recent publications include Cosmopolitanism and the Media (2015, with M. Christensen) and Communications/Media/Geographies (2017, with P. C Adams, J. Cupples, K. Glynn and S. Moores).

1. Introducing critical mediatization research

PART I: A CULTURAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVE OF MEDIATIZATION

2. Mediatization is ordinary

3. Why are media indispensable?

4. Social recognition and status in a mediatized world

PART II: INSIDE MOBILE LIVES

5. Mediatization and elite cosmopolitanism

6. Mediatization and post-tourism

7. Mediatization and gentrification

8. Rethinking mediatization, mobility and social power

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