Media Materialities
Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning
Author: Dr. Oliver Carter and Iain A. Taylor Series: BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research
Drawing on a range of qualitative methodologies, the consideration of the materiality of media is structured around three overarching concepts: form, format and ephemeral meaning. Contributors consider a range of media artefacts including 8mm film, board games, maps, videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios and Twitter, amongst others and punctuate these with considerations with less formal, often personal takes exploring the meanings of media in context. This collection creates spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of media, culture, and society.
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus.
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Drawing on a range of qualitative methodologies, the consideration of the materiality of media is structured around three overarching concepts: form, format and ephemeral meaning. Contributors consider a range of media artefacts including 8mm film, board games, maps, videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios and Twitter, amongst others and punctuate these with considerations with less formal, often personal takes exploring the meanings of media in context. This collection creates spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of media, culture, and society.
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus.
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An analysis of the interrelationship between media forms, format, and meaning.
Media Materialities brings together a team of scholars to analyze the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Deploying a number of different qualitative methodologies, the contributors address three overarching concepts: form, format, and ephemeral meaning. They investigate a range of media artifacts, such as 8mm film, board game maps, videogames, cassette tapes, transistor radios, and Twitter. Their goal is to create spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of media, culture, and society.
About the Author
Dr Iain A. Taylor is senior lecturer in music at University of the West of Scotland, and co-managing editor of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music.
Dr Oliver Carter is reader in creative economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media for Media and Cultural at Birmingham City University.
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