Media Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780745649993)

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. The 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.

Author: Mark Deuze
ISBN-10: 0745649998
ISBN-13: 9780745649993
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2013