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Critical Terms for Media Studies

Critical Terms for Media Studies

Mitchell, W. J. T.
Hansen, Mark B. N.

Paperback

Series: Critical Terms

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0226532550
ISBN13: 9780226532554
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Mar 15 2010
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
An essential guide to the field of media studies for any student or scholar

Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. Critical Terms for Media Studies defines, and at times, redefines, what this new and hybrid area aims to do, illuminating the key concepts behind its liveliest debates and most dynamic topics.

Part of a larger conversation that engages culture, technology, and politics, this exciting collection of essays explores our most critical language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media. Edited by two outstanding scholars in the field, W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, the volume features works by a team of distinguished contributors. These essays, commissioned expressly for this volume, are organized into three interrelated groups: Aesthetics engages with terms that describe sensory experiences and judgments, Technology offers entry into a broad array of technological concepts, and Society opens up language describing the systems that allow a medium to function.

A compelling reference work for our media landscape, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader's knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

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