
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 91-106
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349453108
Full citation:
, "Mediatized connectivity", in: Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014


Mediatized connectivity
historical traits of telephony and theoretical considerations about a new dispositive of communication
pp. 91-106
in: Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz (eds), Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Abstract
We are currently witnessing a process of mediatization which is, in turn, establishing a new dispositive of communication. Emerging out of the realm of mobile communication, techno-cultural developments have laid the foundation for a new status of "perpetual contact" (Katz and Aakhus, 2002, p. 2), which is now on its way to a further extension as processes of convergence between the fields of mobile communication, the global infrastructure of the internet and additional applications of ubiquitous computing are setting new frameworks for communication. Today, we find the individual embedded within a structure of permanent connectivity, which on the one hand offers new chances for participation in media and communication structures, but on the other hand carries implied constraints and risks within a new communication structure that we can identify as a dispositive of "mediatized connectivity".
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 91-106
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349453108
Full citation:
, "Mediatized connectivity", in: Mediatized worlds, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014