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How to do things with media

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posted on 2022-05-05, 11:40 authored by Adrian LeguinaAdrian Leguina, Jacob Ørmen, Fiona Huijie Zeng Skovhøj, Signe Sophus Lai, Jesper Pagh, John DowneyJohn Downey, Rasmus Helles, Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Media are typically understood, in research and in common parlance, as forms of representation – ways and means of rendering diverse aspects of reality in either factual or fictional formats. This chapter focuses on the broader and deeper social structures that are the products, in part, of innumerable distributed acts of communication: Representations and interactions that produce, maintain, repair, and transform reality over time and, increasingly, across space. It lays out different forms of capital, as they relate to human communication, drawing on the seminal work of Pierre Bourdieu. The chapter explores an empirical account of the complex process in which communication is capitalized, drawing on the Peoples' Internet surveys to characterize the agency that people exercise daily online as parents, partners, citizens, consumers, patients, religious subjects, and more. It broadens the perspective to consider digital, analog, as well as embodied forms of communication as resources in tackling both mundane choices and pressing dilemmas of everyday life.

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School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Communication and Media
  • Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

Published in

Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States

Pages

108 - 140

Publisher

Routledge

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© The Authors

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States on November 29, 2022, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367522339.

Publication date

2022-11-29

Copyright date

2023

ISBN

9780367522339; 9780367522346; 9781003057055

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Klaus Bruhn Jensen; Rasmus Helles

Depositor

Dr Adrian Leguina. Deposit date: 3 May 2022

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