Critical terms for media studies
By: edited by W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen.
Contributors: Mitchell, W. J. T. 1942-; Hansen, Mark B. N. 1965-
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780226532547; 9780226532554
Subjects: Literature and technology; Art and technology; Technology -- Philosophy; Digital media; Mass media; Image (Philosophy)
Description: 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, and featuring a team of distinguished contributors - including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker, and Bernard Stiegler - "Critical Terms for Media Studies" offers diverse opportunities for students to understand the language that underpins much of new media. The essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, not only emphasize the ways in which technology changes our understanding of mediation, but also help to articulate issues important to media practitioners, such as the obsolescence of the body and the changing role of memory. Mitchell and Hansen have organized these essays 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' invites inquiry into language that describes 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 anyone's knowledge of one of our most important new fields.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics; title: Art / Johanna Drucker; title: Body / Bernadette Wegenstein; title: Image / W. J. T. Mitchell; title: Materiality / Bill Brown; title: Memory / Bernard Stiegler, with an introduction by Mark Hansen; title: Senses / Caroline Jones; title: Time and space / W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark Hansen; title: Technology; title: Biomedia / Eugene Thacker; title: Communication / Bruce Clarke; title: Cybernetics / N. Katherine Hayles; title: Information / Bruce Clarke; title: New media / Mark Hansen; title: Hardware/software/wetware / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; title: Technology / John Johnston; title: Society; title: Exchange / David Graeber; title: Language / Cary Wolfe; title: Law / Peter Goodrich; title: Mass media / John Durham Peters; title: Networks / Alexander R. Galloway; title: Systems / David Wellbery; title: Writing / Lydia H. Liu.