ABSTRACT
Welcome to the study of everyday life – yours, mine, and everybody else’s. If you are looking at this book expecting to find out about ‘the media’ – and not about the mundane stuff of ordinary human existence, then this opening statement will have surprised you, perhaps, and you might be confused. But welcome anyway. The point is that media are so central to our existence that we
can’t really separate ‘the media’ from everything else and bracket off the moments when we are engaging with media and the rest of our waking hours.
