Modal media
Connecting media ecology and mobilities research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia M Hildebrand (0000-0003-2798-2094, Drexel University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 348-364 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717707343 |
| OpenAlex | W2613878377 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 42 |
Following Emily Keightley and Anna Reading in their conceptualization of ‘mediated mobilities’, I illuminate useful connections between media ecology and mobilities research and make the case for a combined modal medium theory. Both fields align clearly in their interest in technology and technique, media and modes, and messages and moods. A fruitful starting point in the suggested transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework is the exploration of the specific medium along with its materialities. In the second step, different kinds of environments and possible choreographies the medium affords ask to be considered. In a broader conceptualization, the term ‘medium’ refers not only to technological entities but also to subjects (tourists), practices (dancing), and places (cities), which likewise prompt different messages and moods. Ideally, research occurs on a synchronous level by following the routes of media and modes across space, and on a diachronous level by exploring the roots of media and modes across time. The objective is to promote a material medium literacy that questions capacities and agencies of forms and materials in their respective contexts
Biology · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Media ecology · Media studies · Mobilities · Modal · New media · Political science · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Social Media and Politics · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
Transformation and diversification of Banten TV business as local television industry in the digital era
What is the message of the robot medium? Considering media ecology and mobilities in critical robotics research
Speed and pessimism
Reluctant mobilism
Consumer drones and communication on the fly
Towards an integrated theory of mediation
High heels as mobile media
Romance as a medium-Lin Huiyin’s relationships in transmedia intertextual discourse
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication
Without technology we'd be very stuck
Technopoly
Marxism and literature
Aircraft Stories
Television
Thinking through Technology
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
Window Shopping
Remediation
Modernity at large
Amusing ourselves to death
Envisioning Eden
Geographies of Mobilities
Multiple Media Literacies
Historicizing New Media
Popular Culture and New Media
Code/Space
Digital Memory and the Archive
Tourism Mobilities
Ethnography through Thick and Thin
On Disciplining Media Ecology
Concerning Media Ecology
From Travel to Tourism
The entelechies of media
Media ecology and techno-ethics in Paul Virilio
The message is the mode
The Legibilities of Mood Work
Mediated mobilities
Communication as Culture, Revised Edition
Understanding media
Democracy of Objects
Technology and Technique in a Useful Ethnography of Movement
Of 'other' materialities
The New Mobilities Paradigm
The City is a Medium
On Geography and Materiality
The Internet
Modes and Moods of Mobility
Automotive Emotions
| Citations per year | 1.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |