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 Media Life: The Experience of Love, Sex & Death in Digital Culture
  
  Speaker  Mark Deuze, Indiana University and Leiden University
    
 Date Nov 9, 2009
    
 Time 12:30 pm  
    
 Location B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory
    
 Sponsor Graduate College, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Information in Society Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Institute of Communications Research, Human-Computer Interaction Colloquium Series
    
 Event type Academic
    
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Research since the early years of the 21st century consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how being concurrently exposed to media has become a foundational feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Contemporary media devices, what people do with them, and how all of this fits in the organization of our everyday life disrupt and unsettle well-established views of the role media play in society. Instead of continuing to wrestle with a distinction between media and society, this contribution proposes we begin our thinking with a view of life not lived with media, but in media. The media life perspective starts from the realization that the whole of the world and our lived experience in it can be seen as framed by, mitigated through, and made immediate by (immersive, integrated, ubiquitous and pervasive) media. In this presentation, the media life perspective is developed by correlating the claims of contemporary social theory with recent reports on media use among teenagers around the world.
 
 
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