adjective
- influenced, shaped, or filtered through media representation or coverage
Usage: common in media studies and contemporary discourse
verb
- past tense and past participle of 'mediatize': to make subject to or dependent on media influence; to present or interpret through media
Usage: less common than the adjective form
Examples
- The scandal became a mediatized event, with every detail amplified by news outlets.
- Modern politics is increasingly mediatized, with candidates carefully crafted for television.
- The company mediatized its environmental efforts through a coordinated social media campaign.
- Our understanding of distant conflicts is often mediatized by the lens of international news networks.
- The mediatized version of the story differed significantly from what actually happened.
- They mediatized the product launch by partnering with popular influencers.