Social and communication theorists Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp draw on their recent book The Mediated Construction of Reality (Polity 2016) to explore what happens to the concept and practice of ...

In the wake of high a profile death, it is increasingly common to see mass public outpourings of grief on RIP Facebook pages. This article explores media coverage of death and its relation to public ...

Language in Society, Vol. 41, No. 4 (September 2012), pp. 449-470 (22 pages) We observe that MEDIATIZATION (Agha 2011b) creates and maintains the conditions by which some messages and uptake ...

The project focused the domestic media use of the online vanguard. This term describes households who have established an online-based domestic media repertoire and have replaced classic analogue ...