The Visual Perception and Image research in F. Kittler's Digital Media theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 201-230
Author(s):  
So-Young Choi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Theory

scholarly journals Enacting Media. An Embodied Account of Enculturation Between Neuromediality and New Cognitive Media Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Fingerhut
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Work ◽  
The Mind

This paper argues that the still-emerging paradigm of situated cognition requires a more systematic perspective on media to capture the enculturation of the human mind. By virtue of being media, cultural artifacts present central experiential models of the world for our embodied minds to latch onto. The paper identifies references to external media within embodied, extended, enactive, and predictive approaches to cognition, which remain underdeveloped in terms of the profound impact that media have on our mind. To grasp this impact, I propose an enactive account of media that is based on expansive habits as media-structured, embodied ways of bringing forth meaning and new domains of values. We apply such habits, for instance, when seeing a picture or perceiving a movie. They become established through a process of reciprocal adaptation between media artifacts and organisms and define the range of viable actions within such a media ecology. Within an artifactual habit, we then become attuned to a specific media work (e.g., a TV series, a picture, a text, or even a city) that engages us. Both the plurality of habits and the dynamical adjustments within a habit require a more flexible neural architecture than is addressed by classical cognitive neuroscience. To detail how neural and media processes interlock, I will introduce the concept of neuromediality and discuss radical predictive processing accounts that could contribute to the externalization of the mind by treating media themselves as generative models of the world. After a short primer on general media theory, I discuss media examples in three domains: pictures and moving images; digital media; architecture and the built environment. This discussion demonstrates the need for a new cognitive media theory based on enactive artifactual habits—one that will help us gain perspective on the continuous re-mediation of our mind.

Hot and Cool Mothers

differences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-84
Author(s):  
Hannah Zeavin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Emotionally Disturbed ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Parental Fitness ◽  
Maternal Function ◽  
Helicopter Parent ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Psychological Studies

“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their impacts on their children. The most famous, if not persistent, of these diagnoses is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered, however; overstimulating mothers, called in this study “hot mothers,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond, class, race, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature. Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media, this article attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed,” queer, and neurodivergent children. The author argues that these newly codified diagnoses were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation, mediation, domesticity, and race, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.”

Submerging Kittler

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Jue
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Street View ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
The Media ◽  
Natural Media

This article imaginatively submerges the media theory of German scholar Friedrich Kittler into the ocean in order to show how the ocean changes how one might theorize computational media. Beginning with a description of XL Catlin Seaview Survey’s oceanic ‘Street View’, it plunges into several examples from Kittler’s own work that engage sound and the sea. I argue that natural media are always already co-present with digital media; and we have only recently and retrospectively been able to see natural media as media through the lens of analogous technical media for storage, transmission, and recording. The ocean leads to a more comprehensive account of the networked power of computational media and their contemporaneity with natural media. Attention to the role of environment in this way suggests a mischievous inversion of Kittler’s claim that ‘media determine our situation’. Perhaps the possibilities of our media are determined by the materiality of distinct environmental situations.

The message is the mode: Modes in digital media and media theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Theory

scholarly journals Acquisition of new communication media and social (dis)connectivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-593
Author(s):  
Jesper Tække
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
In The Beginning

The article discusses the relation between communication media and social (dis)connectivity. The question is how communication media provide society with different possibilities for (dis)connectivity in different historical media societies. The article draws on Luhmann’s sociocybernetics theories of social systems and communication media in combination with media theory (especially Meyrowitz). As a starting point, the acquisition of oral language made communicative connections and thereby society possible. Later the written media, print media and analogue electronic media opened up new possibilities for social systems to develop structures with new forms of communicative connections. Even though society is only possible because of communication media, which offer new ways of forming new structures that provide new connection possibilities, a new communication medium, especially in the beginning, causes problems and disconnectivity. After the introduction of the printing press in Europe, a great interpretation disagreement broke out and wars raged across the continent for the next centuries. Later with the invention of radio and film, dictators, especially Hitler, benefited from the new media situation. In the final section, the article analyses if we also in the present-day society with the acquisition of digital media see signs of new disconnectivity, and it discusses if we in the new medium society, like in the former, will experience permanent societal disconnectivity going hand in hand with new forms of connectivity.

scholarly journals The organizational powers of (digital) media

Organization ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Beverungen ◽  
Timon Beyes ◽  
Lisa Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Technological Mediation ◽  
Digital Or

Digital media are pervasive, ubiquitous and mundane constituents of organization. Organized life relies on, and is propelled by, technologies that store, transmit and process data and are based on networked computation. How can we understand and explore the fundamental mediatedness of organization? This article contextualizes and introduces the special issue on ‘The organizational powers of (digital) media’ by staging an encounter between organization theory and media theory. In provoking investigations of the power and effects of technological mediation in its many guises, not least in regard to digital or computational media, this encounter ushers in a ‘medial thought’ of organization.

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