Media Theory

The Switch Image

Television Philosophy Lorenz Engell, Free University of Berlin, Germany This book looks at TV as what happens on the screen and beyond it; which is mainly the operation of switching images. It proposes a new definition of TV as the first picture that can be switched on, off, and over, which stresses that TV is more tactile than visual. Through the ongoing interlacing of “TV 1.0” (the image is being switched) and “TV 2.0” (the image is a switch), TV transforms the world and itself from an analogue state to a digital one and from central perspectivism to pluri-perspective. In terms of time, through switching and the switch, it develops and reworks new temporal orderings, such as instantaneity, synchronicity, flow, and seriality. World All Languages (except German)

Miscommunications

Errors, Mistakes, Media Edited by Timothy Barker, University of Glasgow, What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes and errors have a certain power, what stands behind it? To address these questions this collection assembles a range of cutting-edge philosophical, socio-political, art historical and media theoretical inquiries that address contemporary culture as a terrain of miscommunication. Miscommunications shows that to think about the contemporary historical moment, a new history and theory of these devices needs to be written, one which illustrates the emergence of the current cultures of miscommunication and the powers of the false.

Researching Communications

A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis David Deacon, Loughborough University, UK, Graham Murdock, Loughborough University, UK & Peter Golding, Loughborough University, UK The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is an authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Introducing the major research methods, giving examples of research analysis, and offering practical step-bystep guidance in clear language, Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks. The new edition includes expanded and updated sections on social media, e-methods, comparative research, on-line data bases, international case studies and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.

Disformations

Affects, Media, Literature Tomáš Jirsa, Palacký University, Czech Republic Providing an interdisciplinary crossover of cultural affect studies, media philosophy, and aesthetics, Disformations investigates the formal affordances of affects by probing the aesthetic and theoretical consequences of four different encounters between the human subject and the formless, charting their appearance across a wide range of literature and the (audio)visual arts.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 176 pages • 19 bw illus PB 9781501374890 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781501362347 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501362330 • £73.88 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501362323 • £73.88 / $90.00

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages HB 9781501349287 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501349294 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501349300 • £95.81 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

UK & Maria Korolkova, University of Greenwich, UK Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781501363856 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501363849 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501363832 • £95.81 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

Contexts, Forms, and Practices Edited by Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, USA & James O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms and Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)––that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic.

UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 272 pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781501363504 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363498 • £88.50 / $108.00 Series: Electronic Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK, ePdf 9781501363481 • £88.50 / $108.00

UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 480 pages • 65 bw illus PB 9781501316920 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781501316968 • £86.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501316944 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501316937 • £29.22 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic

On the Digital Semiosphere

Culture, Media and Science for the Anthropocene John Hartley, Curtin University, Western Australia, Indrek Ibrus, Tallinn University, Estonia & Maarja Ojamaa, Tallinn University, Estonia One of the most original and prescient thinkers to tackle cultural globalisation was Juri Lotman (192293). This volume shows how his general model of the semiosphere provides a unique and compelling key to the dynamics and functions of today’s globalised digital media systems and, in turn, their interactions and impact on planetary systems. Developing their own reworked and updated model of Lotman’s evolutionary and dynamic approach to the semiosphere or cultural universe, the authors offer a unique account of the world-scale mechanisms that shape media, meanings, creativity and change.

UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 272 pages • 28 bw illus HB 9781501369247 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501369230 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501369223 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic