The Poetics of digital media

Author

• Frosh, Paul

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9780745651323

Series

Subject(s)

• DIGITAL MEDIA-PHILOSOPHY
• MASS MEDIA-PHILOSOPHY

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 193-214. Index: p. 215-220

Abstract

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence.

The Poetics of Digital Media explores the poetic work of media in digital culture. Developing an argument through close readings of overlooked or denigrated media objects – screenshots, tagging, selfies and more – the book reveals how media shape the taken-for-granted structures of our lives, and how they disclose our world through sudden moments of visibility and tangibility. Bringing us face to face with the conditions of our existence, it investigates how the ‘given’ world we inhabit is given through media.

This book is important reading for students and scholars of media theory, philosophy of media, visual culture and media aesthetics.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xix, 220 p.

Dimension

22 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prologue, Monster's Inc. as a poetic manifesto --
Introduction, media poetics --
Composite, the morality of inattention in pre-digital media --
Screenshot, the 'photographic' witnessing of digital worlds --
Tag, naming bodies and incarnating selves in social media --
Selfie, the digital image as gesture and performance --
Interface, remediated witnessing and embodied response --
Conclusion, to infinity and beyond.

Exemplar(s)

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