Beschreibung:
David Savat is a lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Western Australia, Australia.
Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional media such as television, radio, and print, media provide the framework for our engagement with the world and each other. By recasting the traditional concerns of media studies through the lens of the work of Deleuze and Guattari this book provides an innovative new toolkit for understanding how media shape our world. Taking as their central question what it is that media do, Harper and Savat offer a new and insightful approach to this exciting area of study.
First introductory text to apply Deleuze's ideas to Media Studies
1. Introduction: Media Machines and the Body Without Organs of CommunicationPart I: Assemblages2. Writing Machinesa. Regmines of Signsb. Printing Pressc. Processor3. Image Machinesa. Facialityb. Photographyc. Celebrity4. Distribution Machinesa. Connections and Flowb. Television and the Arborealc. Internet and the Rhizomatic5. Game Machinesa. The Smooth and the Striatedb. Digital Gamesc. Alternate Reality GamesPart II: Abstract Machines6. Newsa. What is the Body Without Organs of News?b. News Framing and the Urstaatc. Nomads of the News7. Adverstisinga. Desiring Machinesb. Advertising as Capturec. Advertising as Flight8. Genresa. Culture and Becomingb. Pop Culturec. Participatory CultureConclusion: Media Machines and their Lines of FlightBibliographyIndex