Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning (BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research)

ISBN 10: 1835952046 / ISBN 13: 9781835952047

Published by Intellect Books, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Media Materialities: Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning (BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research)
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1835952046
• ISBN 13: 9781835952047
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An analysis of the interrelationship between media forms, format, and meaning.

Media Materialities brings together a team of scholars to analyze the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Deploying a number of different qualitative methodologies, the contributors address three overarching concepts: form, format, and ephemeral meaning. They investigate a range of media artifacts, such as 8mm film, board game maps, videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios, and Twitter. Their goal is to create spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of media, culture, and society.
 

About the Authors

Oliver Carter is professor of creative economies at Birmingham City University, UK. 

Iain Taylor is senior lecturer in music at University of the West of Scotland.