The Ends of Media Studies

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9262835

Nicole Starosielski

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article poses the question: what are the ends of media studies? It discusses a turn to “nature” and the elements that has pushed media studies beyond its traditional objects and subjects. While the conceptualization of environments and bodies as communicative substrates offers new avenues for media research, mediation has also been taken up in a wide range of disciplinary and intellectual contexts. Rather than establishing limits or an essential core of media studies, the article suggests that media scholars take an etic orientation and attend to the questions whose invisibility is constitutive of the field. Using the example of undersea cable systems, the article describes some of the many conceptual, institutional, and pedagogical ends of media analysis.

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媒介研究的终结

这篇文章提出了一个问题：媒体研究的目的是什么？它讨论了对“自然”的转向，以及推动媒体研究超越传统对象和主题的因素。虽然将环境和身体概念化为交流基础为媒体研究提供了新的途径，但调解也在广泛的学科和知识背景下被采用。这篇文章建议媒体学者采取一种理论取向，关注那些不可见性是该领域组成部分的问题，而不是建立媒体研究的界限或基本核心。文章以海底电缆系统为例，描述了媒体分析的许多概念、制度和教学目的。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.