Whither the Material in New Media Studies?
This article addresses how new media theory has been founded on an endemic exclusion and erasure of a concept of the material, because of the ascendancy of a concept of the virtual in theoretical and historical research on the development of new media technologies. In order to develop this claim, th...
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| description | This article addresses how new media theory has been founded on an endemic exclusion and erasure of a concept of the material, because of the ascendancy of a concept of the virtual in theoretical and historical research on the development of new media technologies. In order to develop this claim, three influential accounts of the virtual in media studies are reviewed (the history of technologies of the virtual, embodiment and informatics, and post-structuralist theories of digital media) in order to demonstrate how each is grounded in an exclusion of the material. On the basis of this analysis, the article poses a definition of the material that responds to, but is not informed by, these exclusions, one that acknowledges the media’s role in enhancing one’s capacity to cognize the things in one’s immediate physical surroundings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f683c5eba2d243de89b85316449f86b52024-04-17T02:10:31ZengUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Librariescommunication +12380-61092013-09-01211510.7275/R55H7D6KWhither the Material in New Media Studies?John W. KimThis article addresses how new media theory has been founded on an endemic exclusion and erasure of a concept of the material, because of the ascendancy of a concept of the virtual in theoretical and historical research on the development of new media technologies. In order to develop this claim, three influential accounts of the virtual in media studies are reviewed (the history of technologies of the virtual, embodiment and informatics, and post-structuralist theories of digital media) in order to demonstrate how each is grounded in an exclusion of the material. On the basis of this analysis, the article poses a definition of the material that responds to, but is not informed by, these exclusions, one that acknowledges the media’s role in enhancing one’s capacity to cognize the things in one’s immediate physical surroundings.http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol2/iss1/6Film and Media StudiesMaterialvirtualmedianew mediaimmediatephysicalembodimentdigitalexclusionsee-through graphical interfaceaugmented realitysupplementarity |
| spellingShingle | John W. Kim Whither the Material in New Media Studies? communication +1 Film and Media Studies Material virtual media new media immediate physical embodiment digital exclusion see-through graphical interface augmented reality supplementarity |
| title | Whither the Material in New Media Studies? |
| title_full | Whither the Material in New Media Studies? |
| title_fullStr | Whither the Material in New Media Studies? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whither the Material in New Media Studies? |
| title_short | Whither the Material in New Media Studies? |
| title_sort | whither the material in new media studies |
| topic | Film and Media Studies Material virtual media new media immediate physical embodiment digital exclusion see-through graphical interface augmented reality supplementarity |
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