Rozczarowanie, konsumpcja i niespodzianka – estetyczne uwarunkowania odbioru współczesnego słuchowiska

Tekstualia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (45) ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Janusz Łastowiecki
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Radio Studies ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Radio Art

The article refers to Leopold Blaustein’s conceptual framework for radio studies so as to address the problem of the contemporary reception of radio drama. The current understanding of radio art, convergence and hybridization can be elucidated through a reference to Blaustein’s concept of acousion, itself an idea to be examined in the context of contemporary media studies. The categories introduced in the article: surprise, consumption and disappointment, are meant to encourage further research on the functions of radio drama in the digital era of the radio.

scholarly journals Deep Time of Media Infrastructure

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Mattern
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Infrastructure Studies

This chapter discusses the significance of historical media infrastructures that precede the digital era. Adopting a media archaeological approach, it studies how historical networks layered in urban space shape contemporary media systems. These networks extend back far beyond nineteenth-century telegraph wires to include much earlier Greek-inspired aural, inscriptive, and architectural forms. Suggesting that research on early media infrastructures can usefully inform studies of the media city, which typically begin with modern media and rarely include discussions of infrastructure, the chapter delineates a number of potential interdisciplinary engagements for media infrastructure studies, ranging from geology to architectural history. It then looks at what media studies can gain from further engagement with archaeological and infrastructural research.

scholarly journals A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: the sense of the ending of television

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Milly Buonanno
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Way

The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of the passing of television as we knew it may offer media scholar-ship the opportunity to assume the viewpoint of the end as the privileged perspective from which the broadcast era can be looked at anew, eventually acknowledging the reasons why it is liable to be praised rather than buried.

Transmediality and the End of Disembodied Semiotics

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A Bateman
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Semiotic System ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Contemporary Media

The phenomena of mixing, blending, and referencing media is a major topic in contemporary media studies. Finding a sufficient semiotic foundation to characterize such phenomena remains challenging. The current article argues that combining a notion of ‘semiotic mode' developed within the field of multimodality with a Peircean foundation contributes to a solution in which communicative practices always receive both an abstract ‘discourse'-oriented level of description and, at the same time, a biophysically embodied level of description as well. The former level supports complex communication, the latter anchors communication into the embodied experience. More broadly, it is suggested that no semiotic system relevant for human activities can be adequately characterized without paying equal attention to these dual facets of semiosis.

scholarly journals The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margreth Lünenborg ◽  
Tanja Maier
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Affect Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media And Communication

This editorial delivers an introduction to the thematic <em>Media and Communication </em>issue on “The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies”. The social and cultural formation of affect and emotion has been of central interest to social science-based emotion research as well as to affect studies, which are mainly grounded in cultural studies. Media and communication scholars, in turn, have especially focused on how emotion and affect are produced by media, the way they are communicated through media, and the forms of emotion audiences develop during the use of media. Distinguishing theoretical lines of emotion theory in social sciences and diverse traditions of affect theory, we reflect on the need to engage more deeply with affect and emotion as driving forces in contemporary media and society. This thematic issue aims to add to ongoing affect studies research and to existing emotion research within media studies. A special emphasis will be placed on exploring structures of difference and power produced in and by media in relation to affect and emotion.

scholarly journals Eksperyment medialny w kształceniu kompetencji dziennikarskich

2020 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (4) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Aneta Wójciszyn-Wasil
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Education Tool

This paper presents the conceptual framework of a media experiment as a journalism education tool. It is driven by the thesis that professional engagement in contemporary media not only requires primary practical skills but also creativity to the extent of novel media and content structure. The media experiment that entails performance of an original journalistic task is a form of teaching creative skills. This paper contains the description of the educational programme arranged for within the framework of the said media experiment, outputs, and exemplified performance. The construct at issue constitutes the introduction for further applied research.

scholarly journals Deconstruction and the Archival Revolution: on the Relevance and Reception of Archive Fever in New Media Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Glavaš
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
New Media Studies ◽  
The One

The paper focuses on the reception of Derrida’s Archive Fever among (new) media theorists and its relevance for the ongoing discussions in that academic field. Although this Derrida’s text is often described as the one in which he provides a statement on the pervasive revolutionary impact of new media, its reception among media theorists remains scarce. Several media scholars that tackle the text, however, have an ambivalent stance on it: they appreciate some of Derrida’s theses, but regard them largely obsolete. The first part of the paper analyzes these critiques and argues that many of the objections on Derrida’s behalf are caused by the misinterpretation of important features of the deconstructive thought. In its second part, the paper firstly deals with certain weaker points of Derrida’s reflection and then proceeds to examine his insights pertinent to the problems of contemporary media theory that were neglected in earlier reception. Finally, paper reaffirms the claim about the need for a more profound exchange between the deconstruction and media studies, albeit one that would avoid the examined shortcomings.

scholarly journals The coronavirus crisis as a world-historic event in the digital era

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-517
Author(s):  
Charalambos Tsekeris ◽  
Persefoni Zeri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
World Society ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media

The world-historic event of the COVID-19 pandemic has once more confirmed that we live in a hyperconnected world society and that, nowadays, epidemics do not count as merely natural phenomena anymore. In such context, the present paper aims to interpret the complex relationship between the society and COVID-19, with emphasis on the role played by different forces in the field of information policy and public perceptions in general. For this reason, we elaborate on cultural factors, as well as on emotions like responsibility, trust, and fear during the crisis. We also focus on the dynamics of contemporary media in relation to public images of the pandemic, drawing upon relevant findings. Overall, this casts a fresh sociological and interdisciplinary light on the current pandemic as a relational process and a digital media-driven phenomenon.

Dissecting news diversity: An integrated conceptual framework

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492096688
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hendrickx ◽  
Pieter Ballon ◽  
Heritiana Ranaivoson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
News Production ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Concentration ◽  
Media Market

News diversity is increasingly gaining momentum and relevance in academic research, but quantifying and qualifying the term remains problematic. This paper presents the results of a structured meta-synthesis literature review, in which all relevant publications dealing explicitly with news diversity, media diversity or content diversity of the 21st century found on Scopus ( n = 61) are coded and analysed. Findings reveal that studies dealing with these concepts are on the rise in absolute numbers, but also that their theoretical foundations predominantly still lie in the 1990s. From the viewpoint that said foundations have become inadequate to study and understand news diversity in the digital era, we propose an integrated conceptual framework, model and definition to operationalise news diversity, which takes into consideration recent changes in journalism as media concentration dynamics and changing patterns in news production and consumption. It does so by developing a typology of five categories of diversity (ownership, brand, production, content, consumption) and presenting three levels from which news diversity can be studied (the macro level of the media market, the meso level of the media company and the micro level of the media brand). Ultimately, the paper proposes the adoption of mixed methods research to reveal more about the characteristics, contexts and constraints within any media market.

Media Ethnography and the Disappearance of Communication Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Nightingale
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Media Ethnography ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Media Audience

This article revisits the interplay of theories and research focusing on the interplay between anthropology, and communication and media studies, It argues that where initially media ethnographies (selectively) borrowed theories and methods from anthropology, today it is anthropological media ethnography that holds sway. The result is a shift away from media audience research. I suggest this is because the concept of audience is necessarily linked to assumed theories of communication. Yet it is precisely a theory of communication (as opposed to theories of culture) that is missing today. The article advocates that instead of borrowing theories of communication, we need to begin the more difficult task of retheorising it in order to better address contemporary media problems.

Space Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Réka Patrícia Gál ◽  
L M Wilkins ◽  
Yuxing Zhang ◽  
Marie-Pier Boucher ◽  
Tero Karppi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Contemporary Media

This article proposes the notion of space media as a way of defining media that connect humans with outer space. It is suggested that six areas related to contemporary media theory are particularly relevant to understanding space media: epistemology, anthropogenesis, planetary mediums, infrastructure, imaginaries, and remains. The article further suggests that the field of media studies needs to take account of outer space and, as a result, alter its own current practice.Cet article propose la notion de médias de cosmos comme une façon de définir les médias qui relient les humains à l’espace extra-atmosphérique. Il est suggéré que six domaines liés à la théorie contemporaine des médias sont particulièrement pertinents pour comprendre les médias de cosmos: l’épistémologie, l’anthropogenèse, les média planétaires, les infrastructures, les imaginaires et les vestiges. L’article suggère que la domaine des études sur les médias doit tenir compte de cosmos extra-atmosphériques et, par conséquent, modifier sa propre pratique actuelle.Mots clés : Cosmos; Médias de cosmos; Théorie des médias

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