{"product_id":"media-matter-the-materiality-of-media-matter-as-medium-9781501320101","title":"Media Matter: The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bernd Herzogenrath\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Music, Theatre \u0026amp; Films\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaunching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series, \u003ci\u003eMedia Matter\u003c\/i\u003e introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of \"medium\" to include a concept of materiality that also includes \"non-human\" transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or \"discourse networks,\" but more inclusively, in terms of a \"media ecology.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity, photography, sculpture and music), especially in relation to film, Herzogenrath and the contributors redefine the concept of \"medium\" in order to think through media, rather than about them.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085143007383,"sku":"9781501320101","price":3203.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501320101.webp?v=1769201752","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/media-matter-the-materiality-of-media-matter-as-medium-9781501320101","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}