- Oct 2024
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We live in this mediatized environment
The term "mediatized environment" reflects the context in which we operate, implying that media is not just a tool but a significant context that influences thoughts, behaviors, and societal structures.
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This environment of ubiquitous ICTs brings many benefits. With our GPS-enabled smartphones we rarely become lost. Finding a place to eat in an unfamiliar town, a place with good reviews and the cuisine of our choice, is now quite easy. Keeping in touch with a large number of friends is as simple as checking our social media feed. By allowing notifications to be sent to us, updates from our ‘friends’ are delivered directly to our phones, where we can simply glance down to attend to them. These ICTs enable a robust interconnection with our sociocultural world.
The benefits outlined (e.g., GPS navigation, and finding restaurants) showcase how these technologies enhance convenience and accessibility, making daily tasks more manageable and efficient. The ease of maintaining relationships through social media illustrates how ICTs facilitate social connectivity, enabling users to engage with a broad network of friends without significant effort. The robust interconnection highlights the role of ICTs in shaping and enriching our social and cultural environments, suggesting that technology serves practical purposes and influences our social lives and identities.
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The framework of the approach described in this book uses six groupings of relations: technological, sociocultural, time, space, mind, and body, with a main emphasis on technological relations. How these relations, as well as their interrelational effects, participate in the constitution of the human subject is explored through an analysis of a museum selfie, which contributes to the development of a pragmatic instrument that can be used for media literacy.
This framework underscores the complexity of interactions between various dimensions of human experience and media technologies. Each grouping (technological, sociocultural, etc.) represents a critical lens for understanding how individuals engage with media. Highlighting technological relations indicates a prioritization of how digital tools shape human behavior and identity, suggesting that these tools are central to modern existence.
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