Communicative Figurations

This study looks at how communication is reshaped by media technologies and how that reshaping feeds back into everyday social life. It traces the links between technical channels of exchange and the roles people play within relationships, groups and wider social settings. Institutions and the dynamics that move through them receive close attention, as do the ways collective and personal identities take form. The discussion also reaches into public debate and the decisions made by political actors, with particular attention to how media logic and the wider process of mediatization influence them.