Conditions of mediation : phenomenological perspectives on media / edited by Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers

Published:: New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description:: vii, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Markham, Tim, 1974- and Rodgers, Scott, 1976-

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Summary:

Phenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. 'Conditions of Mediation' brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media research-from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies. The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of media-whether as forms, texts, technics or protocols-marking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place? Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological perspectives on media via two critical dialogues involving key thinkers alongside a series of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded chapters. In so doing, interdisciplinary media studies is brought into conversation with the work of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as phenomenologically-inspired thinkers such as Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Ingold, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Kittler, Marshall McLuhan and Bernard Stiegler.

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9781433134708 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1433134705 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781433134692 paperback ; alkaline paper
1433134691 paperback ; alkaline paper
9781453919040 electronic book
9781433137297 electronic publication
9781433137303 mobi

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2017

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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