Materialist Media Theory

An Introduction

AvGrant Bollmer

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Beskrivning

Our technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media's physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself. More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media's materiality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-19
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501337093
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

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Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, USA, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of the books Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection (2016) and Theorizing Digital Cultures (2018).

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Materialist Media Theory is much more than just an introduction. Instead, Bollmer's book is an attempt, and a very successful one, to reshape the domain of media studies by defending a special take on the major issues and stakes of the field as well as by critically rereading a large number of its foundational and contemporary thinkers.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Thinking About (and in) the Materiality of Media 1. Representations and Performances 2. Inscriptions and Techniques3. Spaces and Times4. Bodies and Brains5. Objects and AffectsConclusion: Ten Theses on the Materiality of MediaAcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex