The first in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy, this volume explores
a transdisciplinary notion of media and technology, exploring media
as technology, with special attention to its material, historical
and ecological ramifications. The authors reconceptualize media
from environmental, ecological and systems approaches, drawing not
only on media and communication studies, but also philosophy,
sociology, political science, biology, art, computer science,
information studies and other disciplines. Featuring a group of
internationally known scholars, this collection explores evolving
definitions of media and how media technologies are transforming
theory and practice. As the current media includes a wider and
wider range of concepts, products, services and institutions, the
definition of media continues to be in a state of flux. What are
media today? How is media studies evolving? How have technologies
transformed communication and media theory, and informed praxis?
What are some of the futures of media? The collection challenges
traditional notions of media, as well as concepts such as freedom
of expression, audience empowerment and participatory media, and
explores emergent media including transmedia, virtual reality,
online games, metatechnology, remediation and makerspaces. The
book's primary readership will be academics, scholars and students
in media and communication studies, including a wide range of
undergraduate and graduate courses in media studies, communication
studies and new media. Suitable for classroom use in the areas of
philosophy of communication and media, media theory, media ecology,
cultural studies, media archaeology, feminist studies and political
economy of communications and media.
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