Media Ecology explores the idea of a life lived in and through immersion in an environment of digital media and technologies, and the life of media and technologies themselves. The increasing convergence on the digital form has been accompanied by a new fluidity between interconnected devices and digital media devices now carry, connect to, communicate with and allow the creation and sharing of hybrid, perpetually remixed content. This proliferation of media forms, cultures and experiences takes us beyond the broadcast-era dominance of a limited number of forms (newspapers, radio, cinema and television) exposing a much more complex 'media ecology'. Hoskins and Merrin argue that the move to the post-broadcast era exposes the limitations of the established academic media histories of the broadcast-era. Their linear histories of the rise and interrelation of the main forms that dominated the 20th century are important but don't help us understand the contemporary digital environment. For this we need to move beyond the privileging of print, radio, film and TV and re-immerse within a broader history of technological development and use. What is now needed therefore is a turn to media ecology, to understand how media environments and relationships are formed and transformed; and a turn to media archaeology, to understand how media technologies historically evolve. These approaches allow us to understand the specific evolving ecology and history of our contemporary digital media worlds.
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ISBN
9780415694094
Publisert
2021-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
05, UP, UU
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
224

Biographical note

Andrew Hoskins is Interdisciplinary Research Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He was formerly Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Memory Studies and Co-Editor of the book series of the same name. He is also founding Co-Editor of the journal of Media, War & Conflict and Co-Editor of the Routledge book series Media, War & Security. William Merrin is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Swansea University, with a specialism in media theory, media history and digital media. He was the creator of the concept of 'Media Studies 2.0' which offered a critique of broadcast-era media studies and its histories and is currently writing Media Studies 2.0: A New Introduction. His Media Studies 2.0 blog is here: http://mediastudies2point0.blogspot.com He is also a collector of pre-cinema artefacts and a member of the Magic Lantern Society.