Book:
Medial Transformations: Theorising the Intelligent Mediation Sphere

Author(s): Bolouri, Maryam
Abstract

Media are playing significant roles in the context of the contemporary world. They are deeply interwoven with many aspects of life. The relationships between contemporary media and societies and cultures are complex. Therefore, theorising media situation is a challenging endeavour. The central goals of the current book are to review the ontological and epistemological shifts in medium theories, to theorise contemporary media and critically examine the ‘new’ media practices. In a nutshell, the discussions revolve around three areas of media ontology, media typology and media practices. Media ontology addresses the concepts and definitions of media at a meta-level. The concept of media can be defined either positive – media as a particular technology or cultural/communicational means – or negative – media as complex sets of medial relations or mediation processes. In the current book, media are defined as mediation processes, sets of non-linear mediated formations in transformations (a dynamic-organic state of ‘becoming’ cultural events, media situations, mediated environments and mediation sphere). Media cannot be reduced to certain modalities or technological characteristics, rather they ‘set the shape, pace, rhythms, and typography’ of cognitive, communicational, cultural, social, biopolitical life in temporal and spatial living environment. This definition can provide a holistic approach for categorisation of media.

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@PHDTHESIS{Bolouri2019,
 author = {Bolouri, Maryam},
 title = {Medial Transformations: Theorising the Intelligent Mediation Sphere},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/4149},
 address = {Tübingen},
 publisher = {Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen},
}
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