ABSTRACT
As I sit down to write these final words, I have a confession to make. At the end of this book’s labor of love, the final task has proven much harder than anticipated. The various ideas in the book are swarming around my head like bees attracted to the flowering of intellect. (Or is it like flies, attracted to what often attracts flies?) I have settled on the strategy of following Moores by picking a moment out of everyday life, in order to discuss the everyday but also the extraordinary, and how mediated communication linked the two. I also want to reflect on mediatization and hospitality, as prompted by Jansson. The mix will include media convergence and Othering, as prompted by Cupples and Glynn. I find that there is no room to discuss the ideas I have laid out in my earlier contributions, but, with luck, these can already stand on their own.
