Media life

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time getsspent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regularfeature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most peopleincreasingly takes place alongside producing media. Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as livedin rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today asa prism to understand key issues in contemporary society, where realityis open source, identities are – like websites – always underconstruction, and where 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.