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Pioneer Communities: How our digital futures emerge in Silicon Valley (2026)
For decades, pioneer communities in Silicon Valley and beyond have been at the forefront of shaping our ideas of digital futures, from social media platforms and self-tracking practices to the idea of viewing the world as a tech lab of the future. Their latest frontier, artificial intelligence, is already pushing the imagined boundaries of human
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Deep Mediatization (2020)
This book takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society.Often, such questions are discussed in isolation losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Andreas Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and
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Mediated Construction of Reality (2017)
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand