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Conditions of Mediation

Phenomenological Perspectives on Media

by Tim Markham (Volume editor) Scott Rodgers (Volume editor)
©2017 Textbook X, 258 Pages

Summary

Phenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media research—from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies.
The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of media—whether as forms, texts, technics or protocols—marking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place?
Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological perspectives on media via two critical dialogues involving key thinkers alongside a series of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded chapters. In so doing, interdisciplinary media studies is brought into conversation with the work of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as phenomenologically-inspired thinkers such as Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Ingold, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Kittler, Marshall McLuhan and Bernard Stiegler.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: Theorizing Media Phenomenologically (Tim Markham / Scott Rodgers)
  • Part One: Critical Dialogues
  • First Dialogue
  • McLuhan and Phenomenology (Graham Harman)
  • Signal Territories: Broadcast Infrastructure, Google Earth, and Phenomenology (Lisa Parks)
  • To the Things Themselves: Thoughts on the Phenomenology of Media (Paddy Scannell)
  • Discussion
  • Second Dialogue
  • Digital Orientations: Movement, Dwelling, and Media Use (Shaun Moores)
  • Phenomenology and Critique: Why We Need a Phenomenology of the Digital World (Nick Couldry)
  • Phenomenological Approaches to the Computal: Some Reflections on Computation (David M. Berry)
  • Discussion
  • Part Two: Bodies, Technics, Agency
  • Chapter One: Techno-Phenomenology, Medium as Interface, and the Metaphysics of Change (Shane Denson)
  • Chapter Two: What Does the Body Know of Photography? (Eve Forrest)
  • Chapter Three: Mobile Media and Mediation: The Relational Ontology of Google Glass (Ingrid Richardson / Rowan Wilken)
  • Chapter Four: Media In and Out of Time: German Media Science and the Concept of Time (Tim Barker)
  • Chapter Five: Conducting Medial Wills to Power: A Phenomenological Critique of Intellectual Property (Daniel M. Sutko)
  • Part Three: Spaces, Places, Environments
  • Chapter Six: Structures of Experience: Media, Phenomenology, Architecture (Joel McKim)
  • Chapter Seven: From Non-Place to Place: A Phenomenological Geography of Everyday Living in Media Cities (Zlatan Krajina)
  • Chapter Eight: Mediated Orientation: Phenomenology and the Ambivalence of Everyday (Diasporic) Space (Eyal Lavi)
  • Chapter Nine: Finding Time for Goffman: When Absence Is More Telling Than Presence (Kenzie Burchell)
  • Part Four: Meaning, Politics, Ethics
  • Chapter Ten: Chickens that Like Pink Floyd: Media Physicalism and the Experience of New Technology (Brenton J. Malin)
  • Chapter Eleven: Interactive World Disclosure (or, an Interface Is Not a Hammer) (Roy Bendor)
  • Chapter Twelve: Mediating Subjectivity Through Materiality in Documentary Practice (Catalin Brylla)
  • Chapter Thirteen: Becoming Quiet: On Mediation, Noise Cancellation, and Commodity Quietness (Matthew F. Jordan)
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Index

Conditions of Mediation

Phenomenological Perspectives on Media

Edited by Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers

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About the author

Tim Markham (DPhil., University of Oxford) is Professor of Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London. He is author of The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality (2011) and co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (2007).

Scott Rodgers (Ph.D., King’s College London) is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. His research focuses on the relationships of media and cities, media production practices, digital and networked technologies and ethnographic methodologies.

About the book

Phenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media research—from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies.

The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of media—whether as forms, texts, technics or protocols—marking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place?

Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological perspectives on media via two critical dialogues involving key thinkers alongside a series of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded chapters. In so doing, interdisciplinary media studies is brought into conversation with the work of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as phenomenologically-inspired thinkers such as Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Ingold, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Kittler, Marshall McLuhan and Bernard Stiegler.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

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Table OF Contents


List of Figures

Introduction: Theorizing Media Phenomenologically

Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers

Part One: Critical Dialogues

First Dialogue

McLuhan and Phenomenology

Graham Harman

Signal Territories: Broadcast Infrastructure, Google Earth, and Phenomenology

Lisa Parks

To the Things Themselves: Thoughts on the Phenomenology of Media

Paddy Scannell

Discussion

Second Dialogue

Digital Orientations: Movement, Dwelling, and Media Use

Shaun Moores

Phenomenology and Critique: Why We Need a Phenomenology of the Digital World

Nick Couldry

Phenomenological Approaches to the Computal: Some Reflections on Computation

David M. Berry

Discussion ←v | vi→

Part Two: Bodies, Technics, Agency

Chapter One: Techno-Phenomenology, Medium as Interface, and the Metaphysics of Change

Shane Denson

Chapter Two: What Does the Body Know of Photography?

Eve Forrest

Chapter Three: Mobile Media and Mediation: The Relational Ontology of Google Glass

Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken

Chapter Four: Media In and Out of Time: German Media Science and the Concept of Time

Tim Barker

Chapter Five: Conducting Medial Wills to Power: A Phenomenological Critique of Intellectual Property

Daniel M. Sutko

Part Three: Spaces, Places, Environments

Chapter Six: Structures of Experience: Media, Phenomenology, Architecture

Joel McKim

Chapter Seven: From Non-Place to Place: A Phenomenological Geography of Everyday Living in Media Cities

Zlatan Krajina

Chapter Eight: Mediated Orientation: Phenomenology and the Ambivalence of Everyday (Diasporic) Space

Eyal Lavi

Chapter Nine: Finding Time for Goffman: When Absence Is More Telling Than Presence

Kenzie Burchell

Part Four: Meaning, Politics, Ethics

Chapter Ten: Chickens that Like Pink Floyd: Media Physicalism and the Experience of New Technology

Brenton J. Malin

Chapter Eleven: Interactive World Disclosure (or, an Interface Is Not a Hammer)

Roy Bendor←vi | vii→

Chapter Twelve: Mediating Subjectivity Through Materiality in Documentary Practice

Catalin Brylla

Chapter Thirteen: Becoming Quiet: On Mediation, Noise Cancellation, and Commodity Quietness

Matthew F. Jordan

Contributor Biographies .

Index ←vii | viii→ ←viii | ix→

Details

Pages
X, 258
Publication Year
2017
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433137297
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433137303
ISBN (PDF)
9781453919040
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433134692
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433134708
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1904-0
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (May)
Keywords
architecture computation diaspora digital media embodiment ethics ethnography experience human geography mediation media theory medium theory new media non-media-centrism object-oriented ontology phenomenology philosophy posthumanism postphenomenology politics practice theory sociology space speculative realism sound subjects technics technology time urban
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2017. X, 258 pp.

Biographical notes

Tim Markham (Volume editor) Scott Rodgers (Volume editor)

Tim Markham (DPhil., University of Oxford) is Professor of Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London. He is author of The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality (2011) and co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention (2007). Scott Rodgers (Ph.D., King’s College London) is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. His research focuses on the relationships of media and cities, media production practices, digital and networked technologies and ethnographic methodologies.

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