phenomenological perspectives on media Markham, Tim 1974- editor of compilation. Rodgers, Scott 1976- editor of compilation. text bibliography nyu 2017 monographic eng

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vii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Phenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media research—from social platforms and wearable media to diasporic identity formation and the ethics of consumer technologies. The new orthodoxy in media studies emphasizes the experience of media—whether as forms, texts, technics or protocols—marking a departure from traditional approaches preoccupied with media content or its structural contexts. But phenomenologically informed approaches go beyond merely asking what people do with media. They ask a more profound question: what constitutes the conditions of mediated experience in the first place? Beginning with an accessible introduction, this book invites readers to explore a wide range of phenomenological perspectives on media via two critical dialogues involving key thinkers alongside a series of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded chapters. In so doing, interdisciplinary media studies is brought into conversation with the work of philosophers such as Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as phenomenologically-inspired thinkers such as Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Ingold, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Kittler, Marshall McLuhan and Bernard Stiegler. Part One: Critical Dialogues -- Part Two: Bodies, technics, agency -- Part Three: Spaces, places environments -- Part Four: Meaning, politics, ethics -- Contributor biographies -- Index. edited by Tim Markham and Scott Rodgers. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mass media Philosophy Phenomenology P90 .C6375 2017 302.2301 9781433134692 (softcover : alk. paper) 9781433134708 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2016034678 DLC 161108 20190208135628.0 19367822 eng