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Week 4: Mediation: Space

The media creates a certain relationship between people and the way media communications and technologies are used.  Again, this applies to the same sense of ‘a social whole,’ from the media ritual subject matter in week one, which is a continuous and constant factor of media and its relation to humans.  Our sense of space … Continue reading

Week 3: Mediation: Time

The media influences our preferences, our general way of thinking, how we act, our interests and our life as we know it.  Time plays a pivotal role in terms of media and how we relate to it.  When certain things are broadcast/published there will be a different feeling for its audience due to its repetition … Continue reading

Week 2: Domestication

The topic of domestication is a perfect eye-opener when it comes to analysing our lives in the modern world.  This includes how our lives are run, what they are run by, and what our modern day values consist of.  Although domestication is closely related to media rituals, the difference between the two that separates them … Continue reading

Week Two: Media Rituals

1st reading: Couldry, Nick.  “media Rituals: the Short and the Long Route.”  Media Rituals: A Critical Approach.  London: Routledge, 2003, 1-20 Media is not only part of our lives, but is quite arguably playing a significant and central role in how we as humans are now defining ourselves in the modern and contemporary world we … Continue reading