Liveness, "Reality," and the Mediated Habitus from Television to the Mobile Phone

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ID5777426
AuthorsN Couldry (0000-0001-8233-3287, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume7
Issue4
Pages353-361
Publication date2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Communication Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1071-4421 • E-ISSN: 1547-7487
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10714420490886952
OpenAlexW2006480009
LanguageEN
Citations received84
References cited11

Television's liveness has long been seen as one of its key features. This paper argues that "liveness" is not a textual feature, but a more fundamental category (in Durkheim's sense) that contributes to underlying conceptions of how media are involved in social organization through their provision of privileged access to central social "realities." This ideological view of liveness (cf. Jane Feuer's early work) is then extended in two ways: first, to consider two new forms of "liveness" that do not involve television (online liveness via the Internet and "group liveness" via the mobile phone); and second, by connecting liveness with Bourdieu's concept of habitus, and thereby linking "liveness" (including in its extended senses) with other parts of the materialized system of classification through which we make sense of the everyday world

Habitus · Liveness · Mobile phone · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics

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