Media Life (original) (raw)

Research consistently shows how, through the years, more of our time is spent using media, how media multiply in everyday life, and that consuming media for most people 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 people experience media as a prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, in which reality is open source, identities are – like websites – always under construction, and 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.