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Thoughtful pieces with far reaching consequences,
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This review is from: Critical Terms for Media Studies (Paperback)
This an interesting book, suitable for students and researchers with a broad range of media interests - whether it be in relation to fine arts, mass communication, or any other area of the field. First, I'll give an indication of what this book is not. It's probably not effective to use this book as an encylopedia, or as an introduction to media studies. For that, I suggest trying New Media: A Critical Introduction (but maybe wait to see if a paperback version of the 2nd edition is released) or Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks (KeyWorks in Cultural Studies) or The New Media Reader if you want a good selection of key works that have influenced the often overlapping fields of media and cultural studies (see moreso the 2nd half of that book for stuff on media). I think people who would most benefit from the book under review are people who have some familiarity with the sorts of ideas that are discussed in these three books. A careful reader with any experience reading from the Humanities should be alright, though.
What this book does offer the reader is a careful interrogation of concepts that are crucial to the contemporary vocabulary of media studies. I will not evaluate the individual pieces as I think it's a bit too arduous if I try to do it well, and unfair to the authors if I do a shoddy job. Instead, I'll simply iterate what the terms are and who deals with them. Section 1: Aesthetics Art - Johanna Drucker Body - Bernadette Wegenstein Image - WJT Mithcell Materiality - Bill Brown Memory - Bernard Stiegler Senses - Caroline Jones Time and Space - Mitchell & Hansen Section 2: Technology Biomedia - Eugene Thacker Communication - Bruce Clarke Cybernetics - Katherine Hayles Information - Bruce Clarke New Media - Mark Hansen Hardware/Software/Wetware - Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Technology - John Johnston Section 3: Society Exchange - David Graeber Language - Cary Wolfe Law - Peter Goodrich Mass Media - John Durham Peters Networks - Alexander Galloway Systems - David Wellbery Writing - Lydia Liu I recommend this book for people wanting to keep abreast/ahead of the current debates about the relations between embodiment, technology and society. |
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Critical Terms for Media Studies by Eugene Thacker (Paperback - March 15, 2010)
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