scholarly journals Media Studies and the Mainstreaming of Media History

Media History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History

Communicating Through or Communicating with: Approaching Artificial Intelligence from a Communication and Media Studies Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Natale
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Media History ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Machine Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Human Component ◽  
History And Theory

Abstract This review article examines two recent publications that explore the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and communication. Discussing Human–Machine Communication (HMC) as an emerging area of inquiry within communication and media studies, two important implications of this body of work are highlighted. First, the "human" component still plays a key role in HMC, since what we call “AI” derives from the technical and material functioning of computing technologies as much as from the contribution of the humans who enter in communication with AI technologies. Second, HMC challenges the very concept of medium, because the machine is at the same time the channel as well as the producer of communication messages. A potential way to solve this challenge is to mobilize existing approaches in media history and theory that expand the concept of medium beyond its conceptualization as mere channel.

scholarly journals Violence and Trolling on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Insight Into

‘Trolls for Trump’, virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world — even life-and-death— impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed and countered in a post-truth world? Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol unpacks discourses, metaphors, dynamics, and framing on social media, in order to begin to answer these questions. Written for and by cultural and media studies scholars, journalists, political philosophers, digital communication professionals, activists and advocates, this book connects theoretical approaches from cultural and media studies with practical challenges and experiences ‘from the field’, providing insight into a rough media landscape.

When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies†

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Raka Shome
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media History ◽  
The North ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Object ◽  
The North Atlantic

AbstractThis article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that have not received any place in media history. Nor are they recognized as a media object. The basic questions that this article raises are: (a) what happens to our understanding of media’s development when we complicate the temporality (North Atlantic Western) through which we narrate the history of media, and (b) What happens to our understanding of what media is when 24/7 electrification is not taken as a norm in our recognition of a media or technology object. What other media objects and mediated lives might then become visible?

Bring yourself back online, Old Bill: Westworld’s media histories, or six degrees of separation from Shakespeare

2021 ◽  
pp. 018476782110094
Author(s):  
Stephen O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History ◽  
Deep Web ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Digital Cultures ◽  
Six Degrees Of Separation

This article explores the polysemous intertextuality of Westworld, an example of ‘complex television’, and focuses particularly on its Shakespearean coordinates. In this futuristic show about sentient androids who quote Shakespeare is a deep web of connections to other Shakespeare adaptations in film, digital cultures, and popular music. Through the perspectives of fan studies and media studies, the article argues that what unfolds out of the show’s discourses and those of its fans, who engage with it through digital platforms and technologies, is a micro media history of Shakespeare. In turn, the show advances an understanding of Shakespeare as posthuman.

scholarly journals Comunicación Social e “Historia Oral”: por un método integrador para la Historia de la Prensa

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Rubén Cabal Tejada
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Comprehensive Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Resumen: La Historia de la Prensa, enmarcada en una historia de la Comunicación Social más amplia, ha pivotado entre las propuestas teóricas y metodológicas de la historiografía y las propias de la comunicología, llegando incluso a plantearse una ruptura disciplinar entre estas dos perspectivas. En este texto se pretende aportar una reflexión sobre la posibilidad de encuentro entre ambas posturas a partir de un me todo común, basado en los presupuestos defendidos desde la Historia Oral. Más allá de otras consideraciones se propone a partir de una reflexión acotada a una práctica concreta, valorando cuestiones como el hándicap del a posteriori o la influencia de la (auto)representación del entrevistador sobre las fuentes orales, la pertinencia de asumir una metodología integradora en este campo.Palabras clave: Metodología, Historia Oral, Historia de la Prensa, Periodismo.Abstract: The History of the Written Press, or more broadly Media History, has been influenced by theoretical and methodological approaches both from Media Studies and History. But there are some voices that do not consider this positively and call for alternatives. In this paper, we propose a shared methodology based on Oral History. Issues such as the influence of the present or the role of the interviewer regarding oral sources are taken up so as to explore a more comprehensive method for this field.Key words: Methodology, Oral History, Media History, Journalism.

scholarly journals Vernacular Feminism: Gendered Media Cultures and Historical Perspectives on Postdiscourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 671-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Tasker
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media History ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Formats

Although media studies as a discipline has long been involved in various theoretical elaborations of the “post,” it has been concerned far less often with the past that is purportedly posted. In this piece, the concept of postfeminism provides a useful case to highlight how thoughtful engagement with the past has immense value for contemporary media scholarship. I suggest that postfeminist scholarship has typically tackled history only obliquely—via generational tropes—and that a more direct engagement with media history allows an understanding that reaches past the “now” with which postdiscourse tends to concern itself. Patterns of continuity and change have been brought into view through the access to historical media formats facilitated by digital archives. I propose a concept of vernacular feminism as a tool for analyzing historical postfeminism, pointing to the broader relevance for postdiscourses that involve an evocation of the past in the present.

Feminist Media History

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria DiCenzo ◽  
Lucy Delap ◽  
Leila Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Media History
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