Critical Terms for Media Studies

By: W. J. T. Mitchell (Editor), Mark B. N. Hansen (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.

Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: “Aesthetics” engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, “Technology” offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and “Society” opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.

A compelling reference work for the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader’s knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

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"Critical Terms for Media Studies offers not simply a collection of critical terms, but a paradigm-shifting rethinking of the field itself. It represents an extremely important approach to media in the twenty-first century, one that will become increasingly relevant as the ubiquity of new media and new technologies make the questions it raises more and more pressing. The book is a definitive and defining statement about the future shape and direction of media studies." - Charlie Gere, Lancaster University.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Media Studies Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Miscellaneous Items Education

Introduction	p. vii
Aesthetics
Art
Body	p. 19
Image	p. 35
Materiality	p. 49
Memory	p. 64
Senses	p. 88
Time and Space	p. 101
Technology
Biomedia	p. 117
Communication	p. 131
Cybernetics	p. 145
Information	p. 157
New Media	p. 172
Hardware/Software/Wetware	p. 186
Technology	p. 199
Society
Exchange	p. 217
Language	p. 233
Law	p. 249
Mass Media	p. 266
Networks	p. 280
Systems	p. 297
Writing	p. 310
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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