Digital Orientations: Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice

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Shaun Moores

Digital Orientations

Non-Media-Centric Media Studies and Non-Representational Theories of Practice

Shaun Moores

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English

Peter Lang Publishing Inc
30 November 2017

Communication studies; General studies; Media studies; Digital lifestyle

Series: Digital Formations

Might it be possible to rearticulate the term digital in digital media, so that it refers at least as much to the deft movements or orientations of hands and fingers (of digits) as it does to the new media technologies themselves? What if digital media are understood as manual media?

Has the academic field of media studies tended to focus too much on media, and not enough on the practices and experiences of daily living that help to give media their meaningfulness? What if media researchers were to pay more attention to knowledge-in-movement or to matters of orientation and habitation, and rather less to those of symbolic representation and cognitive interpretation?

Digital Orientations is a bold call for non-media-centric media studies (and ultimately for everyday-life studies) with a non-representational theoretical emphasis. The author engages here with a broad range of work from across the humanities and social sciences, drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological philosophy, Ingold’s anthropology, the geographies of Massey, Seamon and Thrift, and the sociologies of Bourdieu, Sudnow and Urry.

By: Shaun Moores
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 101
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781433145643
ISBN 10: 1433145642
Series: Digital Formations
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shaun Moores is Professor of Media and Communications at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, England. He is author or co-author of several previous books including Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society (2000).