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Media and basic desires: An approach to measuring the mediatization of daily human life
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Bengtsson, Stina Fast, Karin Jansson, André Lindell, Johan |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Abstract | The extended reliance on media can be seen as one indicator of mediatization. But even though we can assume that the pervasive character of digital media essentially changes the way people experience everyday life, we cannot take these experiences for granted. There has recently been a formulation of three tasks for mediatization research; historicity, specificity and measurability, needed to empirically verify mediatization processes across time and space. In this article, we present a tool designed to handle these tasks, by measuring the extent to which people experience that media reach into the deeper layers of daily human life. The tool was tested in an empirical study conducted in Sweden in 2017. The results show that perceived media reliance is played out in relation to three types of basic desires: (1) (re)productive desires, (2) recognition desires, and (3) civic desires, and is socially structured and structuring. We argue this tool, in diachronic analyses, can measure one important aspect of mediatization. |
| Related Links | https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/journals/comm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-commun-2019-0122/article-10.1515-commun-2019-0122.pdf |
| Ending Page | 296 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| Starting Page | 275 |
| ISSN | 03412059 |
| e-ISSN | 16134087 |
| DOI | 10.1515/commun-2019-0122 |
| Journal | Communications |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 46 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2021-06-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Comm Communication Mediatization Media Reliance Daily Life Basic Desires Social Stratification Journal: Communications, Vol- 46 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Communication |
