Episode 77

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4th Oct 2024

#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the Vitality of Media pt. 1

This is the first of two episodes on Kember and Zylinska’s essay “Mediation and the Vitality of Media” from their book, Life after New Media:  Mediation as a Vital Process (2012).  Barry and Mike discuss the problems with and reasons for the binary divisions in media theory, particularly the way in which the field understands the relations between “old” and “new” media.  Kember and Zylinska note that the contradictions in the field stem from unresolved tensions in the McLuhan/Williams debate.  We discuss their attempts to overcome the binary.

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Critical Media Studies
The Critical Media Studies podcast discusses the interplay of technology and culture from an academic perspective. In each episode we consider the work of a prominent thinker in the field of critical media studies and discuss the implications of their work in relation to other thinkers and in light of current social contexts.

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