TY - CHAP
T1 - Digitization
T2 - New trajectories of mediatization?
AU - Finnemann, Niels Ole
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The purpose of this chapter is to clarify what the concept of digital media might add to the understanding of mediatization and what the concept of mediatization might add to the understanding of digital media. It is argued that digital media open an array of new trajectories in human communication, which were not anticipated in previous conceptualizations of media and mediatization. If digital media are to be included, the concept of mediatization has to be revised and new parameters must be integrated in the concept of media. At the same time, it is argued that the concept of mediatization still provides a variety of perspectives of relevance to the study of digital media. The claim that the concept of mediatization has to be reinterpreted can only be legitimized if digital media are considered distinct from the media formerly referred to in mediatization theory. Such characteristics are presented and digital media are defined in section 2, while section 1 is devoted to theories of mediatization and the notion of media. Section 3 analyses the relation between mediatization and digitization. Finally, in section 4, medium theory is revisited with a view to harvest some missing fruits in contemporary mediatization theory.
AB - The purpose of this chapter is to clarify what the concept of digital media might add to the understanding of mediatization and what the concept of mediatization might add to the understanding of digital media. It is argued that digital media open an array of new trajectories in human communication, which were not anticipated in previous conceptualizations of media and mediatization. If digital media are to be included, the concept of mediatization has to be revised and new parameters must be integrated in the concept of media. At the same time, it is argued that the concept of mediatization still provides a variety of perspectives of relevance to the study of digital media. The claim that the concept of mediatization has to be reinterpreted can only be legitimized if digital media are considered distinct from the media formerly referred to in mediatization theory. Such characteristics are presented and digital media are defined in section 2, while section 1 is devoted to theories of mediatization and the notion of media. Section 3 analyses the relation between mediatization and digitization. Finally, in section 4, medium theory is revisited with a view to harvest some missing fruits in contemporary mediatization theory.
KW - Digital materials and genres
KW - Digitization and mediatization
KW - Grammar of digital media
KW - Institutionalization of media
KW - Internet and mass media
KW - Materializations of media
KW - Media theories: Modern or general
KW - Medium theory
KW - Modes of mediatization
KW - Notion of networked digital media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979158180&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/9783110272215.297
DO - 10.1515/9783110272215.297
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84979158180
SN - 9783110271935
SP - 297
EP - 322
BT - Mediatization of Communication
PB - De Gruyter
ER -