Mediated aims at creating awareness rather than offering ready-made solutions to remedy the intrusion of too much media in our industrial societies.
Rather than writing yet another pamphlet against the media, the author chooses to focus on the mechanisms and the processes of our mediated society.
The media forces at work since the fifties have contributed to expanding our options greatly, making the self "aware" of the possibilities to be who it deems worth being.
The Washington Post called it "A fine roar of a lecture about how the American mind is shaped by (too much) media".
[1] O, The Oprah Magazine stated "Reading (...) Mediated is like spending time with a wild, wired friend, the kind who keeps you up late and lures you outside your comfort zone with a speed rap full of brilliant notions".