Mediatized reality is a matter of
fact. Nowadays we may refer to mediatization of the
home space, of social contacts, of work, institutions, cultural
behaviour models, of the economy, of culture, of participation in
culture, of group and interpersonal communications, of
globalization as tied to the media, etc.
In the separate sections of this theses, without claiming to be
comprehensive, I focus on these and other media-determined social
processes and effects, using them as illustrations and
demonstrations of the mediatization of society and also as an
explanation of the preconditions for the new conceptualization of
modernity and for the identification of mediatized society as a
third stage, following upon Max Weber's traditional and modern
society.
KEY WORDS: medistization, mediatized society, DIY culture, new
media; Facebook
communication; restructuring of communication; internet economy;
communication action, etc.