Critical Media Studies and the North American Media Literacy Movement

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wehmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
American Media

Queer Bioethics for Everyday Medical Technologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-282
Author(s):  
Jarah Moesch
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Queer Bioethics ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Multimodal Methods

Multimodal tools and systems form the foundations of knowledge: the design of the tools, systems, and databases used everyday form what is known and how it is known. The health humanities can be energized by integrating a humanities-based approach to these tools so as to help students understand the politics such systems enact. In this chapter, the author presents a how-to guide for incorporating technologies as critical bioethical method into course pedagogy, including a short syllabus. The essay is oriented, in other words, to help those with little background in multimodal methods use it in their courses in a way that goes beyond only the instrumental. It articulates how to use such methods as critical inquiry about tools and systems themselves, by centering its example in the intersections between queer theory, critical media studies, and bioethical knowledges.

Afterword II

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Mills ◽  
Jonathan Sterne
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Cross

Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne, leading scholars of media technologies who have long incorporated disability into their analyses, propose “dismediation” as one avenue for the cross-pollination of media and disability studies. Referencing current scholarship in both fields, and engaging with a rich tradition of critical media studies, they argue that “dismediation” understands disability and media as mutually constitutive and thus enables new directions for the study of media and technologies.

scholarly journals (De)Centralization of the Global Informational Ecosystem

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Möller ◽  
M. Bjørn Von Rimscha
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Grass Root

Centralization and decentralization are key concepts in debates that focus on the (anti)democratic character of digital societies. Centralization is understood as the control over communication and data flows, and decentralization as giving it (back) to users. Communication and media research focuses on centralization put forward by dominant digital media platforms, such as Facebook and Google, and governments. Decentralization is investigated regarding its potential in civil society, i.e., hacktivism, (encryption) technologies, and grass-root technology movements. As content-based media companies increasingly engage with technology, they move into the focus of critical media studies. Moreover, as formerly nationally oriented companies now compete with global media platforms, they share several interests with civil society decentralization agents. Based on 26 qualitative interviews with leading media managers, we investigate (de)centralization strategies applied by content-oriented media companies. Theoretically, this perspective on media companies as agents of (de)centralization expands (de)centralization research beyond traditional democratic stakeholders by considering economic actors within the “global informational ecosystem” (Birkinbine, Gómez, & Wasko, 2017). We provide a three-dimensional framework to empirically investigate (de)centralization. From critical media studies, we borrow the (de)centralization of data and infrastructures, from media business research, the (de)centralization of content distribution.

What Critical Media Studies Should Not Take from Actor-Network Theory

2017 ◽  
pp. 66-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Teurlings
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Weak Version ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Critical Edge

While supportive towards a certain rapprochement between media studies and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) this chapter identifies three main characteristics of the Latourian enterprise that critical media studies should avoid if it wants to remain its critical edge: 1. a methodological descriptivism that relies on the victor's account, 2. a rejection of the notion of structure, and 3. an innovative yet limited notion of intellectual work. The chapter next articulates a perspective on how a “weak” version of ANT can augment critical media studies while retaining the latter's strong dedication to changing an unjust social order.

2015 Henry Mayer Lecture: critical media studies and the re-invention of the media

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Media Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

This is the expanded text of the Henry Mayer Memorial Lecture presented by Graeme Turner at the University of Queensland in November 2015. In it, he outlines his argument from his book, Re-inventing the Media, before going on to draw upon that argument to present a series of issues that need to be addressed by critical media studies in the future: the challenge of a bifurcating field, the thoroughgoing commercialisation of the media, and media studies’ drift away from the interrogation of the operation of power in the relations between the media, their audiences and the state.

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