Critical Terms for Media Studies by W.J.T. Mitchell (English) Paperback Book

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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. This title defines what this hybrid area aims to do, exploring our language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media.

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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 the twenty-first century and the media that form our experience within it, Critical Terms for Media Studies will engage and deepen any reader's knowledge of one of our most important new fields.

Author Biography

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of nine books published by the University of Chicago Press, including What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and arts of the moving image at Duke University. He is the author of New Philosophy for New Media, among other titles.

Table of Contents

Introduction W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen Aesthetics 1. Art Johanna Drucker 2. Body Bernadette Wegenstein 3. Image W. J. T. Mitchell 4. Materiality Bill Brown 5. Memory Bernard Stiegler, with an introduction by Mark B. N. Hansen 6. Senses Caroline Jones 7. Time and Space W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen Technology 8. Biomedia Eugene Thacker 9. Communication Bruce Clarke 10. Cybernetics N. Katherine Hayles 11. Information Bruce Clarke 12. New Media Mark B. N. Hansen 13. Hardware/Software/Wetware Geoffrey Winthrop-Young 14. Technology John Johnston Society 15. Exchange David Graeber 16. Language Cary Wolfe 17. Law Peter Goodrich 18. Mass Media John Durham Peters 19. Networks Alexander R. Galloway 20. Systems David Wellbery 21. Writing Lydia H. Liu Contributors Index

Review

"Critical Terms for Media Studies offers not simply a collection of critical terms, but a paradigm-shifting rethinking of the field itself. It represents an extremely important approach to media in the twenty-first century, one that will become increasingly relevant as the ubiquity of new media and new technologies make the questions it raises more and more pressing. The book is a definitive and defining statement about the future shape and direction of media studies." - Charlie Gere, Lancaster University.

Review Quote

"This volume of articles was far more than merely a reflection on a field of study. It was rather a strong statement about what that field could and should be, and a guide to how it might develop and what forms it might take."

Details ISBN0226532550 Short Title CRITICAL TERMS FOR MEDIA STUDI Language English ISBN-10 0226532550 ISBN-13 9780226532554 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edited by Mark B. N. Hansen Illustrations 4 halftones, 6 line drawings Birth 1965 Series Critical Terms UK Release Date 2010-03-15 Publication Date 2010-03-15 AU Release Date 2010-03-15 NZ Release Date 2010-03-15 US Release Date 2010-03-15 Author Mark B.N. Hansen Pages 376 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 302.23014 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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