Chapter 1: Mediated Culture and Ethical Tech: Past, Present, and Future

Drawing together international themes and contributors, this volume of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is entitled Creating Culture Through Media and Communication. As with its companion volume Geo Spaces of Communication Research, this work highlights the synergies between different research methods, theories, disciplinary frameworks, and case locales. This rich collection thereby explores these foci from a diversity of perspectives that also complement the volume’s larger mission to deepen our knowledge of communication research spaces. The research allows us to probe the relationships between media, ethics, and culture in the past, present, and future through scholarship that addresses interrelated themes across three sections: Section 1: Media Cultures, Section 2: Media Culture in Everyday Life, and Section 3: Tech Ethics Futures. As these foci indicate, the collection of chapters showcases the myriad ways that media is embedded in everyday life as a dominant force creating culture at the micro, meso, and macro levels. This is particularly true of digital media that are increasingly ubiquitous and embedded in all life facets such that we close the volume with special attention on ethics in our shared tech futures.