Media and Sociocultural Mediations develops methodologies and critical analyses of communicative phenomena in media productions, in institutions of traditional mediation, and in sociocultural practices. The following questions, therefore, constitute key objects of this line of research:
1) media products as vectors of socialization;
2) forms of sociability engendered by communicative practices in urban spaces and their relation to media products in this context;
3) historical and structural characteristics of and changes in communication media and their implications in the production of meaning;
4) differences between the form of media socialization and other existing socialization processes in other cultures and in Western culture’s past. |