"The Mediated Construction of Reality" is a significant non-fiction book that examines the challenges and changes in social theory in the context of digital media and social platforms. Fifty years after the publication of Berger and Luckmann's classic work, the question is raised as to how social theories can understand the processes through which our everyday world is constructed in and through media. The authors, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, draw insightful connections to the theories of Schütz, Elias, and others to analyze the profound effects of digital media on social reality. They explore whether the social world created by media is stable and livable or increasingly unstable and uninhabitable. This book offers a well-founded engagement with the role of media in the construction of our social reality and is an essential contribution to the social sciences.