Media Theory & Teaching

concepts

a travelogue

Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany This book foregrounds that English monolingualism reduces both our linguistic and conceptual resources, presenting concepts from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 languages. Each contributor explores ideas that have been key to thinking in their language – about sound and silence, voice and image, living and thinking, self and world - while simultaneously addressing the issue of translation. Each chapter demonstrates that translation itself is a way of invention, a way of generating new – albeit not novel – ideas, rather than just a rendering of concepts from one system in terms of another.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 352 pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781501375330 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501375323 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501375316 • £85.90 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Technológos in Being

Radical Media Archaeology & the Computational Machine

Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Germany Wolfgang Ernst’s new book, in its explicit mediascientific approach, aligns with the politics of the Thinking Media series to publish innovative works that advance media studies towards the ‘new sciences.’ Ernst invites readers to re-adjust their ideas of media studies: the conviction that an extended understanding of "medium" needs to include a concept of materiality that focuses on "non- human" agencies as well. The book grounds media analysis radically in the technological apparatuses, relays, transistors, hard- and software, to precisely locate the scenes, operations and frictions where reasoning logos and ‘informable’ matter interfere.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781501378546 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362293 ePub 9781501362286 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501362279 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Sound Affects

A User's Guide

Edited by Sharon Jane Mee, University of New South Wales, Australia & Luke Robinson, University of New South Wales, Australia Sound Affects: A User’s Guide is a collection of sonically-charged concepts ranging from the vocal (whispers, sing, disembodied voice), to sounds at the threshold (knocking, thump, buzz), to sounds beyond the limits of audibility (tremors, distortion, sub-bass). Taking Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss’s Formless: A User’s Guide (1997) as a model, Sound Affects invites the reader to reflect on the ways that sounds produce affects and the ways that affects can operate as sound. Each of the essays develops a particular perspective on sound and affect through a close analysis of audio-visual and/or sonic objects.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781501388880 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501388897 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501388903 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

The Switch Image

Television Philosophy

Lorenz Engell, Professor of Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany This book considers TV as what happens on and beyond the screen: the operation of switching images. It proposes a new definition of TV as the first picture that can be switched on, off, and over, stressing that TV is more tactile than visual. Through the ongoing interlacing of “TV 1.0” (image is being switched) and “TV 2.0” (image is a switch), TV transforms the world and itself from an analogue to a digital state and from central perspectivism to pluri-perspectives. Through switching and the switch, it develops and reworks new temporal orderings, such as instantaneity, synchronicity, flow, and seriality.

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 392 pages PB 9781501377372 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349287 ePub 9781501349294 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501349300 • £85.90 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except German)

Pedagogy in Practice

Project-Based Learning in Media Policy and Governance

Edited by Biswajit Das, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, Santosh Panda, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India & Vibodh Parthasarathi, Jamia Millia Islamia, India The book showcases the application of evidencebased teaching and learning strategies in the field of media and communication studies, with specific reference to hands-on projects on media policy analysis. The intent of the book is to translate theoretical ideas and knowledge in the light of the new pedagogic developments and effective learning and teaching designs that can be taken up in any classroom setting and can be applied to any curriculum in higher and further education.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354359675 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354359682 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789354359668 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)