Hepp - Agency, social relations, and order
Hepp, A. (2022). Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital. Communications, 47(3): 470–493.
In this article, Hepp establishes the theoretical groundwork for how media sociology can keep up with the ongoing transformations brought about by digitalisation. The societal aspects of technological development demand a rehaul of theoretical frameworks and concepts to help us understand and research a highly complex, deeply mediatized world. Namely, in such a world, all human practices, social relations, and social order are entangled with digital media and their infrastructures. This paper signifies an important shift and step forward from theories and frameworks that had been shaped by mass media logics. Hepp focuses on three areas affected by ongoing digitalisation: agency, social relations, and rediscovering social order.
Andreas Hepp “Agency, social relations, and order: Media sociology’s shift into the digital”