Abstract

1. Mediation The concept of ‘mediation’ is tied to overcoming distance in communication, communicating with ‘distant others’. Mediation is associated with ‘time- -space distanciation’, the ‘detachment of a symbolic form from its context of production’ and its ‘re-embedding in new contexts which may be located at different times and places’ (Thompson 1995: 21). Modern forms of telecommunication (the telegraph and telephone, then radio, television, and then the internet) have resulted in the ‘...

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