Critical Terms for Media Studies Format: Paperback

Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen

ISBN 10: 0226532550 / ISBN 13: 9780226532554

Published by University of Chicago press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Terms for Media Studies Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226532550
• ISBN 13: 9780226532554
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature and media arts and sciences at Duke University, coeditor of Critical Terms for Media Studies, and the author of three books, including Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media.