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Modal media: connecting media ecology and mobilities research
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Modal media: connecting media ecology and mobilities research

Julia M. Hildebrand and Robert T Sataloff
Media, culture & society, v 40(3), pp 348-364
01 Apr 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717707343
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Abstract

Communication Social Sciences Sociology
Following Emily Keightley and Anna Reading in their conceptualization of mediated mobilities', I illuminate useful connections between media ecology and mobilities research and make the case for a combined modal medium theory. Both fields align clearly in their interest in technology and technique, media and modes, and messages and moods. A fruitful starting point in the suggested transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework is the exploration of the specific medium along with its materialities. In the second step, different kinds of environments and possible choreographies the medium affords ask to be considered. In a broader conceptualization, the term medium' refers not only to technological entities but also to subjects (tourists), practices (dancing), and places (cities), which likewise prompt different messages and moods. Ideally, research occurs on a synchronous level by following the routes of media and modes across space, and on a diachronous level by exploring the roots of media and modes across time. The objective is to promote a material medium literacy that questions capacities and agencies of forms and materials in their respective contexts.

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