media communication; culture and society; media transformations; technical communication; media social relations and roles; social fields and institutional dynamics; identities and collectives; public debate; political decision-making; media logic; mediatization
This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation o…