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Media Materialities
Form, Format, and Ephemeral Meaning
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An analysis of the interrelationship between media forms, format, and meaning. Media Materialities brings together a team of scholars to analyse the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Deploying a number of different qualitative methodologies, the contributors address three overarching concepts:...
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Media Materialities
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus.
Drawing on aΒ range of qualitative methodologies, the consideration of the materiality of mediaΒ is structured around three overarchingΒ concepts: form,Β format and ephemeralΒ meaning.Β Β ContributorsΒ consider a range of media artefacts includingΒ 8mm film, board games, maps,Β videogames, cassette tapes, transistorΒ radios and Twitter, amongst others and punctuate these with considerations with less formal, often personal takesΒ exploring the meanings of media inΒ context.Β This collection creates spaces for conversation andΒ debate about the implications that thisΒ plurality of material meanings might haveΒ for the study of media, culture,Β and society.
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Description
An analysis of the interrelationship between media forms, format, and meaning.
Media Materialities brings together a team of scholars to analyse the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning. Deploying a number of different qualitative methodologies, the contributors address three overarching concepts: form, format, and ephemeral meaning.
They investigate a range of media artefacts, such as 8mm film, board game maps, video games, cassette tapes, transistor radios, and Twitter. Their goal is to create spaces for conversation and debate about the implications that this plurality of material meanings might have for the study of media, culture, and society.
Series: BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781835952047
Publisher: Intellect
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Intellect Books
Illustration: 32 Halftones, black and white
Contributors:
- Edited by Iain A. Taylor
- Edited by Dr. Oliver Carter
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 170.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 458g
Pages: 282
About the Author
Dr Iain A. Taylor is senior lecturer in music at University of the West of Scotland, and co-managing editor of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music.
Dr Oliver Carter is reader in creative economies at the Birmingham Centre for Media for Media and Cultural at Birmingham City University.
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