MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry
Editat de Jeremy Swartz, Janet Waskoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mai 2021
MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies are transforming media theory and practice. The collection addresses the emerging roles of media across a wide range of disciplines, featuring contributions from an array of internationally known scholars and practitioners.
The definition of media itself is in a constant state of flux, expanding to include an ever-widening range of concepts, products, services, and institutions. Here, the authors reconceptualize media, drawing not only on media and communication studies, but also philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, art, computer science, and information studies, among other disciplines. The collection challenges traditional notions of media, explores emerging media, and reexamines concepts including technology, environment, and ecology; multimedia, mediation, and labor; and participation, repair, and curation. These timely and original discussions by established scholars in the field provide a valuable contribution to the fusion of media across disciplines.
The definition of media itself is in a constant state of flux, expanding to include an ever-widening range of concepts, products, services, and institutions. Here, the authors reconceptualize media, drawing not only on media and communication studies, but also philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, art, computer science, and information studies, among other disciplines. The collection challenges traditional notions of media, explores emerging media, and reexamines concepts including technology, environment, and ecology; multimedia, mediation, and labor; and participation, repair, and curation. These timely and original discussions by established scholars in the field provide a valuable contribution to the fusion of media across disciplines.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789383263
ISBN-10: 1789383269
Pagini: 334
Ilustrații: 42 halftones
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Intellect Ltd
Colecția Intellect Ltd
ISBN-10: 1789383269
Pagini: 334
Ilustrații: 42 halftones
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Intellect Ltd
Colecția Intellect Ltd
Notă biografică
Jeremy Swartz is founder of Metamedia @ UofO: A Metadisciplinary Collaboratory and a research associate in media studies at the University of Oregon. Janet Wasko is the Philip H. Knight Chair in Communication Research and professor of media studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author or editor of twenty-two books and is currently president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Cuprins
Preface to a Trilogy
Introduction
Genealogy
1. ‘When Multimedia Meant Democracy’, Fred Turner, Stanford University
2. ‘Four Reporting Cultures: Designing Humans In and Out of the Future of Journalism’, John Markoff, Stanford University
3. ‘Dark Materials: Media, Machines, Markets’, Graham Murdock, Loughborough University
Meanings of Media
4. ‘A Community of Media: There Is a There There’, Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
5. ‘Media as Cultural Techniques: From Inscribed Surfaces to Digitalized Interfaces’, Sybille Kramer, Freie Universität Berlin
6. ‘Understanding “Medium” in the Context of the Media Ecology Tradition’, Lance Strate, Fordham University
Organs and Organization
7. ‘Between Media Studies and Organizational Communication: Organizing as the Creation of Organs’, François Cooren and Frédérik Matte, Université de Montréal
8. ‘Paradigms for Creative Industry Research’, Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
9. ‘The Politics of Mediation: Colonization to Co-Generative Democracy’, Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado Boulder
Engagement and Extensions
10. ‘Phantasmal Selves: Computational Approaches to Understanding Virtual Identities’, D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. ‘Calm Technology/Media and the Limit of Attention’, Amber Case, Lewis & Clark College (USA)
12. ‘The Next Internet’, Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University
Biomediations
13. ‘Biological Dimensions of Media Ecology and Its Relationship to Biosemiotics’, Robert K. Logan, University of Toronto
14. ‘Biomediations: From “Life in Media” to “Living Media”’, Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London
15. ‘Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Infinity Engine’, Ingeborg Reichle, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Repair and Metamedia
16. ‘No Issues Without Media: The Changing Politics of Public Controversy in Digital Societies’, Noortje Marres, University of Warwick
17. ‘The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair’, Steven J. Jackson and Lara Houston, Cornell University
18. ‘Metamedia’, Jeremy Swartz, University of Oregon
Appendix: Exhibition • Experience • Music
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction
Genealogy
1. ‘When Multimedia Meant Democracy’, Fred Turner, Stanford University
2. ‘Four Reporting Cultures: Designing Humans In and Out of the Future of Journalism’, John Markoff, Stanford University
3. ‘Dark Materials: Media, Machines, Markets’, Graham Murdock, Loughborough University
Meanings of Media
4. ‘A Community of Media: There Is a There There’, Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
5. ‘Media as Cultural Techniques: From Inscribed Surfaces to Digitalized Interfaces’, Sybille Kramer, Freie Universität Berlin
6. ‘Understanding “Medium” in the Context of the Media Ecology Tradition’, Lance Strate, Fordham University
Organs and Organization
7. ‘Between Media Studies and Organizational Communication: Organizing as the Creation of Organs’, François Cooren and Frédérik Matte, Université de Montréal
8. ‘Paradigms for Creative Industry Research’, Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
9. ‘The Politics of Mediation: Colonization to Co-Generative Democracy’, Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado Boulder
Engagement and Extensions
10. ‘Phantasmal Selves: Computational Approaches to Understanding Virtual Identities’, D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. ‘Calm Technology/Media and the Limit of Attention’, Amber Case, Lewis & Clark College (USA)
12. ‘The Next Internet’, Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University
Biomediations
13. ‘Biological Dimensions of Media Ecology and Its Relationship to Biosemiotics’, Robert K. Logan, University of Toronto
14. ‘Biomediations: From “Life in Media” to “Living Media”’, Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London
15. ‘Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Infinity Engine’, Ingeborg Reichle, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Repair and Metamedia
16. ‘No Issues Without Media: The Changing Politics of Public Controversy in Digital Societies’, Noortje Marres, University of Warwick
17. ‘The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair’, Steven J. Jackson and Lara Houston, Cornell University
18. ‘Metamedia’, Jeremy Swartz, University of Oregon
Appendix: Exhibition • Experience • Music
Notes on Contributors
Index
Recenzii
"The creative imagination of this book is astonishing. The brilliance of transdisciplinarity in these intellectually innovative chapters represents a historic turning point in media theory and research. Instead of timid steps, we need to urgently reconceptualize mediation, systems, networks, platforms, criticism, and materiality. This collection is an educational earthquake."
"Bringing together the natural and exact sciences, humanities and arts, this volume puts forward unexpected conceptual conversations, puzzling inquiries, and dynamic lines of action. Its key motivation is to challenge scholars, students, and the public based on vision, solid knowledge and imagination. This book could not be more timely!"
"With a stellar cast of contributors, this insightful volume urges us to reimagine how media can be understood and reconceptualized as more than merely technological artifacts in isolation. The time is right for scholarship and praxis to move beyond binaries and reductions toward magnifying complexity, thus strengthening our critiques."
"Critical, multifaceted and eye-opening, this kaleidoscopic volume illuminates the past, present and future of communication and media studies. Democratize media or face increasing existential crises — the struggle goes on. This book will be a definitive meeting place for concerned scholars, citizens and activists alike."
"Spanning historical perspectives, contemporary concerns, and practical agendas, this volume provides an essential starting point for a transdisciplinary conversation on media and communication as both objects and modes of inquiry."
"This volume contributes exceptional scholarly insights and a significant force urging us to think and act critically, moving beyond narrow conceptualizations. It brings opportunities to build new conversations and encourage cross-cultural inquiries. A must-read piece of contemporary scholarly work."
"If the editors set out to shake up tried and true approaches to understanding media, they have succeeded. This assemblage is an open-ended universe of starting and ending points, patterns, and paradigms. Underlying it all is a quest for advancing towards not more entertaining consumer goods, but more full-throated democratic and just communities."
"What are media and their significance in the contemporary complexity of culture, social life, environment, and power today? This provocative book offers cross-cutting and panoramic views on a topic essential to us all. An elegant, compelling, and must-read first installment of an emerging trilogy."