Sentence:  What <WSD>mediology</WSD> wishes to bring to light is the way in which something serves as a "medium", and the often unperceived complexities that go with it, looking back over the long term (from the birth of writing) without being overly concerned with present-day media (even if certain mediologists are prepared to consider these). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, created by Régis Debray in 1979, that pays specific attention to human symbolic activity and to technology, especially as a medium of cultural transmission.