Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Media Life
Paperback Edition: 1/2012
Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Media Life is a primer
on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where reality is open source, identities are - like websites - always under construction, and where private life is lived in public forever more. Ultimately, media are to us as water is to fish. The question is: how can we live a good life in media like fish in water? Media Life offers a compass for the way ahead.
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Featured in the Sept 2012 Creative Enterprises newsletter.
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Pages : 256
Publisher : Polity Press
Publication date : 2012-07
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film