Survival of the mediated

Departing from a perspective of life as lived in rather than with media, this paper articulates the evolutionary context for people's near-complete immersion in media. Using examples such as the appropriation of the movie "Avatar" by activists around the world it is argued how our ori...

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Main Author: Deuze Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2010-01-01
Series:Cultural Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.33
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