Materialist Media Theory

An Introduction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19923927
AutoresGrant Bollmer (0000-0002-7729-0638, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoMaterialist Media Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781501337086
OpenAlexW4233450693
Open LibraryOL34660283M
ISBN9781501337086
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

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

Cognitive science · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution · Epistemology · Materialism · Media content · Media studies · Media theory · Multimedia · New media · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Social media · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Kulturtheorie · Mass media · Mass media and culture · Massenmedien · Materialismus · Medienkultur · Medientheorie · Sachkultur · Social aspects · Social interaction · Technological innovations