Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: So although our different starting points fuse and intersect, for me the fascination lies in the shift from a communication environment primarily managed face-to-face, then increasingly complemented -even overtaken by -modern mass media, to a thoroughly mediated world shaped by interactive, convergent and networked media, populated as much by hybridised and intersecting texts and forms as by creative and participatory though also socially constrained readers.However, I do not mean to be media-centric: what matters about media is less changes in media per se than how they shape, influence, enable or undermine the activities of young people, parents, teachers, educators, politicians, youth workers, civic bodies etc.In other words, I am interested in the mediation of education, identity, citizenship, relationships, knowledge, creativity, power. 1• Once, media technologies occupied a discrete portion of our analytic space -along with other institutions or social and personal spheres (education, work, family, citizenship, friendship, selfhood).We could analyse each separately or interrogate their overlaps.The media were nouns -television, radio, cinema, press.But as analogue media were replaced by the digital, an adjective, it seems that everything has become mediated.2• Now we must contend with the contemporary prefixing of 'digital' to almost anything and everything interesting, resulting in the construction of a research focus which is superficially
Author: Sonia Livingstone
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W77246231