Media, Culture, And Mediality: New Insights Into The Current State Of Research (cultural And Media Studies)

Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality±, »media culture±, »media discourse± and »procedures of media±. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research. Rezension Reviewed in: Informationssystem Medienpädagogik (www.ism-info.de), 10 (2010) CONTENTS Preface MEDIALITY: CONCEPTS AND MODELS Differentiating Media The Medium as Form Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse Original Copy—Secondary Practices Rumor—More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century “Get the Message Through.” From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960) DISCOURSES: DISPOSITIVES AND POLITICS Picture Events: Abu Ghraib Voice Politics: Establishing the ‘Loud/Speaker’ in the Political Communication of National Socialism Electricity, Spirit Mediums, and the Media of Spirits Normativity and Normality Mass Media Are Effective: On an Aporetic Cunning of Evidence Extraordinary Stories of the Ordinary Use of Media The Governmentality of Media: Television as ‘Problem’ and ‘Instrument’ PROCEDURES: AESTHETICS AND MODES In Between Languages—In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamin’s “Interlinear Version” of Translation as Inframediality Finding Openings with Opening Credits The Reflexivity of Voice A Handout on the Subject of ‘Talking Hands’ What Hands Can Tell Us: From the ‘Speaking’ to the ‘Expressive’ Hand Semiotics of the Human: Physiognomy of Images and Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov and Pynchon Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Others Authors Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality«, »media culture«, »media discourse« and »procedures of media«. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research. With contributions by, among others, Friedrich Balke, Cornelia Epping-Jäger, Gisela Fehrmann, and Marcus Krause. Media Theory,Culture Theory,Language Theory,Picture Theory,Media,Media Aesthetics,Media Studies Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality±, »media culture±, »media discourse± and »procedures of media±. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research. Rezension Reviewed in: Informationssystem Medienpädagogik (www.ism-info.de), 10 (2010) CoverMedia, Culture, and Mediality; CONTENTS; Preface; MEDIALITY: CONCEPTS AND MODELS; Differentiating Media; The Medium as Form; Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse; Original Copy-Secondary Practices; Rumor-More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century; "Get the Message Through." From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960); DISCOURSES: DISPOSITIVES AND POLITICS; Picture Events: Abu Ghraib Biographical note: Ludwig Jäger (Prof. Dr.) was the Chief Executive Director of the Collaborative Research Center" Media and Cultural Communication". He teaches linguistics and media studies at RWTH Aachen University. Erika Linz (Dr. phil.) was the Chief Operating Officer of the Research Center. She is presently teaching linguistics at Siegen University. Irmela Schneider (Prof. Dr.) was the Deputy Executive Director of the Research Center. She teaches media studies at Cologne University

Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality«, »media culture«, »media discourse« and »procedures of media«.Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.

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