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  • adjective mediated to a much greater extent than normal

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hyper- +‎ mediated

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Examples

  • Besides, with the interminable and hypermediated campaigns we have these days, people grow weary of Presidents and would-be Presidents.

    John Kerry comes to Madison to promote Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2008

  • In the society I know best, mine, fact and fiction are absolutely divided, one set above the other to rule and pillage, or, worse, fact and fiction blend into a tangled, hypermediated mess, grounding being in a no-exit maze of consuming: people as a consuming medium, people consumed by the medium.

    'Fanon' 2008

  • Like everything else in the hypermediated culture, from cameras to razors to relationships, they are disposable.

    In the Desert, Prime Time Leonard, John 2006

  • Motivation and aims •   General Video Jack project aims: -   combine visuals with sound in an electronic music performance; -   create an engaging hypermediated experience for the audience;

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows CorreiaNuno 2010

  • Or is the hipster a kind of permanent cultural middleman in hypermediated late capitalism, selling out alternative sources of social power developed by outsider groups, just as the original "white negros" evinced by Norman Mailer did to the original, pre-pejorative "hipsters" - blacks looking for modes of social expression that could serve as a source of pride, power, unification, and emblems of resistance.

    PopMatters 2009

  • We live in a hypermediated world of instant communication.

    The Moderate Voice 2009

  • The Olympics - with their sense of historical urgency and unconditional trust in the future and in nationalism - embody a system that marks the modern confluence of capitalism and mass media by means of an unprecedented mastery of technology, the mass migration of people, and a hypermediated event culture.

    Art Knowledge News 2009

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