MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry

Author:   Jeremy Swartz ,  Janet Wasko
Publisher:   Intellect Books
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Pages:   334
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
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MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies are transforming media theory and practice. The collection addresses the emerging roles of media across a wide range of disciplines, featuring contributions from an array of internationally known scholars and practitioners. The definition of media itself is in a constant state of flux, expanding to include an ever-widening range of concepts, products, services, and institutions. Here, the authors reconceptualize media, drawing not only on media and communication studies, but also philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, art, computer science, and information studies, among other disciplines. The collection challenges traditional notions of media, explores emerging media, and reexamines concepts including technology, environment, and ecology; multimedia, mediation, and labor; and participation, repair, and curation. These timely and original discussions by established scholars in the field provide a valuable contribution to the fusion of media across disciplines. 

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Author:   Jeremy Swartz ,  Janet Wasko
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781789382655


ISBN 10:   1789382653
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface to a Trilogy Introduction Genealogy 1. ‘When Multimedia Meant Democracy’, Fred Turner, Stanford University (USA) 2. ‘Four Reporting Cultures: Designing Humans In and Out of the Future of Journalism’, John Markoff, Stanford University (USA) 3. ‘Dark Materials: Markets, Machines, Media’, Graham Murdock, Loughborough University (UK)  Meanings of Media 4. ‘A Community of Media: There Is a There There’, Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) 5. ‘Media as Cultural Techniques: From Inscribed Surfaces to Digitalized Interfaces’, Sybille Kramer, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) 6. ‘Understanding “Medium” in the Context of the Media Ecology Tradition’,  Lance Strate, Fordham University (USA) Organs and Organization 7. ‘Between Media Studies and Organizational Communication: Organizing as the Creation of Organs’, François Cooren and Frédérik Matte, Université de Montréal (Canada) 8. ‘Paradigms for Creative Industry Research’, Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) 9. ‘The Politics of Mediation: Colonization to Co-Generative Democracy’, Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado Boulder (USA) Engagement and Extensions 10. ‘Phantasmal Selves: Computational Approaches to Understanding Virtual Identities’, D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) 11. ‘Calm Technology/Media and the Limit of Attention’, Amber Case, Lewis & Clark College (USA) 12.  ‘The Next Internet’, Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University (Canada) Biomediations 13. ‘Biological Dimensions of Media Ecology and Its Relationship to Biosemiotics’, Robert K. Logan, University of Toronto (Canada) 14. ‘Biomediations: From “Life in Media” to “Living Media”’, Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) 15. ‘Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Infinity Engine’, Ingeborg Reichle, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (Austria) Repair and Metamedia 16. ‘No Issues Without Media: The Changing Politics of Public Controversy in Digital Societies’, Noortje Marres, University of Warwick (UK) 17. ‘The Poetics and Political Economy of Repair’, Steven J. Jackson and Lara Houston, Cornell University (USA) 18. ‘Metamedia’, Jeremy Swartz, University of Oregon (USA)  Appendix Notes on Contributors Index  

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'The creative imagination of this book is astonishing. The brilliance of transdisciplinarity in these intellectually innovative chapters represents a historic turning point in media theory and research. Instead of timid steps, we need to urgently reconceptualize mediation, systems, networks, platforms, criticism, and materiality. This collection is an educational earthquake.' -- Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 'Bringing together the natural and exact sciences, humanities and arts, this volume puts forward unexpected conceptual conversations, puzzling inquiries, and dynamic lines of action. Its key motivation is to challenge scholars, students, and the public based on vision, solid knowledge and imagination. This book could not be more timely!' -- Helena Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal 'With a stellar cast of contributors, this insightful volume urges us to reimagine how media can be understood and reconceptualized as more than merely technological artifacts in isolation. The time is right for scholarship and praxis to move beyond binaries and reductions toward magnifying complexity, thus strengthening our critiques.' -- Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Miami 'Critical, multifaceted and eye-opening, this kaleidoscopic volume illuminates the past, present and future of communication and media studies. Democratize media or face increasing existential crises - the struggle goes on. This book will be a definitive meeting place for concerned scholars, citizens and activists alike.' -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, National University of Singapore 'This volume contributes exceptional scholarly insights and a significant force urging us to think and act critically, moving beyond narrow conceptualizations. It brings opportunities to build new conversations and encourage cross-cultural inquiries. A must-read piece of contemporary scholarly work.' -- Changfeng Chen, Tsinghua University, China 'Spanning historical perspectives, contemporary concerns, and practical agendas, this volume provides an essential starting point for a transdisciplinary conversation on media and communication as both objects and modes of inquiry.' -- Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 'If the editors set out to shake up tried and true approaches to understanding media, they have succeeded. This assemblage is an open-ended universe of starting and ending points, patterns, and paradigms. Underlying it all is a quest for advancing towards not more entertaining consumer goods, but more full-throated democratic and just communities.' -- Lana F. Rakow, University of North Dakota 'What are media and their significance in the contemporary complexity of culture, social life, environment, and power today? This provocative book offers cross-cutting and panoramic views on a topic essential to us all. An elegant, compelling, and must-read first installment of an emerging trilogy.' -- Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


'What are media and their significance in the contemporary complexity of culture, social life, environment, and power today? This provocative book offers cross-cutting and panoramic views on a topic essential to us all. An elegant, compelling, and must-read first installment of an emerging trilogy.' -- Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 'If the editors set out to shake up tried and true approaches to understanding media, they have succeeded. This assemblage is an open-ended universe of starting and ending points, patterns, and paradigms. Underlying it all is a quest for advancing towards not more entertaining consumer goods, but more full-throated democratic and just communities.' -- Lana F. Rakow, University of North Dakota 'Spanning historical perspectives, contemporary concerns, and practical agendas, this volume provides an essential starting point for a transdisciplinary conversation on media and communication as both objects and modes of inquiry.' -- Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 'This volume contributes exceptional scholarly insights and a significant force urging us to think and act critically, moving beyond narrow conceptualizations. It brings opportunities to build new conversations and encourage cross-cultural inquiries. A must-read piece of contemporary scholarly work.' -- Changfeng Chen, Tsinghua University, China 'Critical, multifaceted and eye-opening, this kaleidoscopic volume illuminates the past, present and future of communication and media studies. Democratize media or face increasing existential crises - the struggle goes on. This book will be a definitive meeting place for concerned scholars, citizens and activists alike.' -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, National University of Singapore 'With a stellar cast of contributors, this insightful volume urges us to reimagine how media can be understood and reconceptualized as more than merely technological artifacts in isolation. The time is right for scholarship and praxis to move beyond binaries and reductions toward magnifying complexity, thus strengthening our critiques.' -- Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Miami 'Bringing together the natural and exact sciences, humanities and arts, this volume puts forward unexpected conceptual conversations, puzzling inquiries, and dynamic lines of action. Its key motivation is to challenge scholars, students, and the public based on vision, solid knowledge and imagination. This book could not be more timely!' -- Helena Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal 'The creative imagination of this book is astonishing. The brilliance of transdisciplinarity in these intellectually innovative chapters represents a historic turning point in media theory and research. Instead of timid steps, we need to urgently reconceptualize mediation, systems, networks, platforms, criticism, and materiality. This collection is an educational earthquake.' -- Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Author Information

Jeremy Swartz is founder of Metamedia @ UofO: A Metadisciplinary Collaboratory and a research associate in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.   Janet Wasko is a professor of Communication Research in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She is the author or editor of twenty-two books and is past president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

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