Media and Everyday Life

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Media and Everyday Life offers an accessible overview for students of media, communication and cultural studies looking to explore how modern-day media practices impact on the experience of everyday life, making this the essential companion to introductory media studies courses. This innovative introduction to media studies challenges conventional accounts of what media do to people focusing instead on what people do with media in the course of everyday life. By rejecting the conventional media studies approach, the book provides a fresh way of thinking about media cultures and provokes thought into how media influences daily social norms. Each chapter offers a broad discussion of various facets of media, such as technology, social media and industries. Key trends and traditions are also considered, helping to define how media has become so entwined in the everyday experience. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate all the recent developments in media including new social media platforms, new technologies like wearables and smart speakers, and the spread of algorithms into so much of the media we encounter every day. The second edition also takes stock of the environmental impact of digital media and its hidden infrastructures, as well our engagement with social issues and movements from Black Lives Matter to Extinction Rebellion.

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Tim Markhams book is a delight. It is both accessible and exciting. Rendering everyday encounters with the media as both ordinary and extraordinary, he reveals how our media experiences are inextricably connected with all aspects of the lives we lead and the societies we inhabit. * John Street, Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia, UK, and author of Media, Politics and Democracy (2021) *
Media and Everyday Life takes an essential step away from the dominant focus on what media do to us, instead taking a closer look at what we do with media. By starting from the vantage point that media are intricately embedded into the fabric of our everyday lives, the book opens up for a stunning array of original insights, based on an accessible yet nuanced engagement with an impressive range of key scholars and concepts in media sociology. * Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, University Dean of Research Environment and Culture and Director of Research, Centre for Community Journalism, Cardiff University UK *

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Tim Markham is Professor of Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is author of Digital Life (2020), Media and the Experience of Social Change: The Arab World (2017), and The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality (2012); co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (2007; 2010) and co-editor of Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media (2017).