those techniques are actually more for reminding the reader that what he or she is reading is mediated

she's receiving heavily mediated data

The fourth influence Gidden lists, is 'the prevalence of mediated experience'.

The problem is rather that folk-political thinking is content to remain at (and even privileges) that level – of the transient, the small-scale, the unmediated and the particular. It takes these to be sufficient rather than simply necessary moments

When the individual liberty and freedom it promises is mediated through the institutional arrangements of private property and the market, as it is in both liberal theory and practice, then huge inequalities result

a fairly familiar postmodern defence of poetry: We are all trapped in modes of inauthenticity, all of us mediated by discourses more powerful than the mere individual's

the technologies mediating our discourse were outstripping our discourse's ability to define those changes or formulate satisfactorily the terms with which to consider and debate their implications

looking is always mediated by other representations of looking

The desire to find employment should no longer be merely a mediated desire for the goods that wages circuitously permit buying, but an intrinsic desire for the activity for its own sake