Libros

This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations.

“Mediatization” characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves.

This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings.The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media.

The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes.The handbook provides the reader with the most currentstate of mediatization research.

Disrupting, questioning and altering the taken-for-granted ‘cosmos’ of everyday life, the experiences of illness challenge the different ways in which social normalcy is remembered, maintained and expected. This book explores the manifold experiences of life threatening, infectious or non-curable illnesses that trouble the practices and relations of human and social life. Challenging a mere deficit-model of illness, it examines how the cosmopolitics of illness require and initiate an ethos that cares for difference and diversity.

Eventful Bodies presents rich qualitative and ethnographic data alongside print and on-line media sources from Germany and North America, exploring case studies involving Alzheimer's disease, stroke and the global threat of infectious diseases such as SARS. The book engages with debates in cosmopolitics and exposes the agency of those overlooked by contemporary discourses of cosmopolitanism, thus developing a new theory of illness and delineating a novel empirical agenda and conceptual space for sociological and anthropological research.

A rigorous examination of the changes wrought in the social world by illness and the implications of this for social and political theory, Eventful Bodies will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, social and political theorists, geographers and scholars of science and technology studies, with interests in medical sociology, health, illness and the body.

A presente obra reúne uma seleção de textos escritos a partir de pesquisas apresentadas no GT Discurso y Comunicación, do XI Congresso da Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de La Comunicación (ALAIC), que se realizou em 2112 em Montevidéu, Uruguai. Nessa edição do evento, o GT Discurso y Comunicación recebeu 103 inscrições, que resultaram na seleção de 46 papers, os quais foram apresentados durante três dias de trabalhos em duas salas, em sessões paralelas. Dessas apresentações, foram selecionadas, pelos coordenadores do GT – João Batista Cardoso, Tanius Karam e Vander Casaqui –, 11 pesquisas.
Alguns dos textos deste livro foram desenvolvidos a partir dos debates que aconteceram durante o evento, enquanto outros apontam resultados de pesquisas que estavam em desenvolvimento no momento da apresentação. Dessa maneira, os textos publicados nesta obra não são mera compilação de trabalhos já publicados em anais, e sim visam apresentar um panorama amplo de pesquisas desenvolvidas na América Latina – com pesquisadores, em diferentes níveis, de Argentina, México, Porto Rico, Uruguai, Colômbia e Brasil –, com escopo nos estudos das linguagens e discursos (Del Prefacio).