Media governance and technology: From “code is law” to governance constellations

Abstract

Social communication has always been realized to a large degree through media technologies. Since the end of the twentieth century, however, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly tangled up with our everyday social interactions and structures. We no longer turn to distinct media products like newspapers or television channels to experience mediated communication; our everyday life is deeply embedded within media. Krotz (2007) and others have coined the term “mediatization” to describe this process. “Contemporary society,” argues Hjarvard, “is permeated by the media, to an extent that the media, may no longer be conceived of as being separate from cultural and other institutions” (2008: 105). Deuze (2012) even speaks plainly of a “media life” that we are living-not with media, but rather in media.

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