Robert Hassan is Associate Professor and Head of the Media and Communications programme in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Thomas Sutherland recently completed his PhD in the Media and Communications programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia where he also currently lectures.

"A much needed and highly savvy examination of the contribution of philosophy to our understanding of media, especially social media, with refreshing attention to ancient philosophers."Paul Levinson, Fordham University, USA"Hassan and Sutherland offer a careful and lucid introduction to media as considered by philosophers over the centuries. The breadth of scholarship in Philosophy of Media is impressive, while the book also offers up some exciting and provocative thoughts about today’s society."William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK

• Introduction - In Medias ResChapter 1 In the beginning was the (written) word…Chapter 2 The Mediation of PoliticsChapter 3 Encoding the UniverseChapter 4 The Question of ObjectivityChapter 5 Automata and the Metaphor of the MachineChapter 6 Form, Matter, and SimulationChapter 7 Analogue and DigitalChapter 8 Technological Determinism: A social Science fiction?Chapter 9 Global Media SocietyChapter 10 End of Modern Politics?Chapter 11 Time, Technology and an Ethic of ResponsibilityConclusion - Bridging the Past and Future

Robert Hassan is Associate Professor and Head of the Media and Communications programme in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Thomas Sutherland recently completed his PhD in the Media and Communications programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia where he also currently lectures.

"A much needed and highly savvy examination of the contribution of philosophy to our understanding of media, especially social media, with refreshing attention to ancient philosophers."Paul Levinson, Fordham University, USA"Hassan and Sutherland offer a careful and lucid introduction to media as considered by philosophers over the centuries. The breadth of scholarship in Philosophy of Media is impressive, while the book also offers up some exciting and provocative thoughts about today’s society."William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK

• Introduction - In Medias ResChapter 1 In the beginning was the (written) word…Chapter 2 The Mediation of PoliticsChapter 3 Encoding the UniverseChapter 4 The Question of ObjectivityChapter 5 Automata and the Metaphor of the MachineChapter 6 Form, Matter, and SimulationChapter 7 Analogue and DigitalChapter 8 Technological Determinism: A social Science fiction?Chapter 9 Global Media SocietyChapter 10 End of Modern Politics?Chapter 11 Time, Technology and an Ethic of ResponsibilityConclusion - Bridging the Past and Future

Robert Hassan is Associate Professor and Head of the Media and Communications programme in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Thomas Sutherland recently completed his PhD in the Media and Communications programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia where he also currently lectures.

"A much needed and highly savvy examination of the contribution of philosophy to our understanding of media, especially social media, with refreshing attention to ancient philosophers."Paul Levinson, Fordham University, USA"Hassan and Sutherland offer a careful and lucid introduction to media as considered by philosophers over the centuries. The breadth of scholarship in Philosophy of Media is impressive, while the book also offers up some exciting and provocative thoughts about today’s society."William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK

• Introduction - In Medias ResChapter 1 In the beginning was the (written) word…Chapter 2 The Mediation of PoliticsChapter 3 Encoding the UniverseChapter 4 The Question of ObjectivityChapter 5 Automata and the Metaphor of the MachineChapter 6 Form, Matter, and SimulationChapter 7 Analogue and DigitalChapter 8 Technological Determinism: A social Science fiction?Chapter 9 Global Media SocietyChapter 10 End of Modern Politics?Chapter 11 Time, Technology and an Ethic of ResponsibilityConclusion - Bridging the Past and Future