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Media, Culture, and Mediality New Insights into the Current State of Research Ludwig Jäger, Erika Linz, Irmela Schneider
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural and media studies.
- Kultur- und Medientheorie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Media Theory.
- Culture Theory.
- Language Theory.
- Picture Theory.
- Media.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Media Theory.
- Culture Theory.
- Language Theory.
- Picture Theory.
- Media.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Media Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (465 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Jäger et al. (eds.), Media, Culture New Insights into the Current State of Research
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- 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 Collaborative Research Center »Media and Cultural Communication«. She is presently teaching linguistics at Siegen University.
- Irmela Schneider (Prof. Dr.) was the Deputy Executive Director of the Collaborative Research Center »Media and Cultural Communication«. She teaches media studies at Cologne University.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Reviewed in:Informationssystem Medienpädagogik (www.ism-info.de), 10 (2010)
- Contents:
- 1 CONTENTS 5 Preface 9 Differentiating Media 19 The Medium as Form 37 Transcriptivity Matters: On the Logic of Intra- and Intermedial References in Aesthetic Discourse 49 Original Copy-Secondary Practices 77 Rumor-More or Less at Home: On Theories of News Value in the 20th Century 87 "Get the Message Through." From the Channel of Communication to the Message of the Medium (1945-1960) 109 Picture Events: Abu Ghraib 141 Voice Politics: Establishing the 'Loud/Speaker' in the Political Communication of National Socialism 161 Electricity, Spirit Mediums, and the Media of Spirits 187 Normativity and Normality 201 Mass Media Are Effective: On an Aporetic Cunning of Evidence 231 Extraordinary Stories of the Ordinary Use of Media 249 The Governmentality of Media: Television as 'Problem' and 'Instrument' 263 In Between Languages-In Between Cultures: Walter Benjamin's "Interlinear Version" of Translation as Inframediality 285 Finding Openings with Opening Credits 307 The Reflexivity of Voice 333 A Handout on the Subject of 'Talking Hands' 349 What Hands Can Tell Us: From the 'Speaking' to the 'Expressive' Hand 367 Semiotics of the Human: Physiognomy of Images and Literary Transcription in Johann Caspar Lavater and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 391 Ultraparadoxical: On the Gravity of the Human Experiment in Pavlov and Pynchon 405 Bastards: Text/Image Hybrids in Pop Writing by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Others 429 AUTHORS 463
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9783839413760
- 3839413761
- OCLC:
- 885020783
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