Contents: Sonia Livingstone: Foreword: Coming to Terms With ‘Mediatization’ – Knut Lundby: Introduction: ‘Mediatization’ as Key – Friedrich Krotz: Mediatization: A Concept With Which to Grasp Media and Societal Change – Andrea Schrott: Dimensions: Catch-All Label or Technical Term – Norm Friesen/Theo Hug: The Mediatic Turn: Exploring Concepts for Media Pedagogy – Lynn Schofield Clark: Theories: Mediatization and Media Ecology – Knut Lundby: Media Logic: Looking for Social Interaction – Stewart M. Hoover: Complexities: The Case of Religious Cultures – Andreas Hepp: Differentiation: Mediatization and Cultural Change – Stig Hjarvard: Soft Individualism: Media and the Changing Social Character – Synne Skjulstad: Dressing Up: The Mediatization of Fashion Online – Jesper Strömbäck/Frank Esser: Shaping Politics: Mediatization and Media Interventionism – Maren Hartmann: Everyday: Domestication of Mediatization or Mediatized Domestication? – André Jansson: Mobile Belongings: Texturation and Stratification in Mediatization Processes – Tanja Thomas: Social Inequalities: (Re)production through Mediatized Individualism – Eric W. Rothenbuhler: Continuities: Communicative Form and Institutionalization – Knut Lundby: Conclusion: Consensus and Conflict.

«Media and communication studies have moved decisively in the past decade beyond a narrow concentration on text, production, and audience, to investigate the broader processes through which media transform the texture of the social world. A principal concept for understanding these transformations is ‘mediatization’. In this important and well-organised collection, leading scholars reflect on what is at stake in this concept and its potential for reorientating media research across many domains. Taken together, their chapters mark a major advance in international comparative work on media theory.» (Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths College, University of London) «A broad-ranging and multi-perspective look at the evolution of the notion of mediatization, so central to the field of communication and media studies. Long overdue, this work helps us understand why mediatization as a concept makes sense of our field even in the midst of the radical technological changes in media form we are living through. A theoretical breakthrough.» (Andrea L. Press, University of Virginia)