1) Media study 1) Mediation 
[media] In communication studies or media studies, mediatization is a theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place (Lilleker, 2008). In this framework, an important aspect of modernization is the development of media ...
• (n.) The act of mediatizing.
Me`di·at`i·za'tion noun [ Confer French médiatisation .] The act of mediatizing. 
Mediatization is the term applied to the annexation of the smaller German sovereignties to larger contiguous states, which took place on a large scale after the dissolution of the German Empire in 1806.