Course:MDIA300
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| Instructor: Dr. Michael Schandorf | |
This wiki is a resource for UBC Media Studies students that is produced by the students themselves. Managed in MDIA 300: Approaches to Writing for Media Studies, where wiki development is part of the coursework, this resource provides quick access to information about media theory concepts, relevant theorists and scholars, key texts concerning media theory—and more.
Who Can Use This Site?
This wiki is an open resource within the UBC wiki, but it’s content is primarily developed within MDIA 300, a required course in the Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Media Studies Program.
Why a Media Theory Wiki?
Media Studies is a vastly multi- and interdisciplinary field. Media Theory substantially overlaps with Communication Theory, Information Theory, and more, while encompassing theories of Media Ecology, New Media Theory, Digital Media Theory, Social Media Theory, Mobile Media Theory, and even more. Media Theory perspectives include Humanistic accounts of media and mediation concerned with critical media theories, issues related to media and identity, and work related to media production, as in Visual Communication and Art History, and well as work in Digital Rhetorics, the Philosophy of Information, Science & Technology Studies, Design Studies, Game Studies, and the Digital Humanities, generally. Media Theory speaks to important aspects of Journalism and Communication in terms of both media production and media reception, such as studies of audiences and media communities. But Media Theory is also important for Social Scientific accounts of media, such as in Media Psychology, Media Anthropology, Media Sociology, Library and Archival Studies, Political Communication, and Geographical technologies. In the Sciences, including Computer Science and Informatics, Media Theory has deep and important connections to Information Theory, Cybernetics, and Systems Theory. Recognizing and disentangling connections among all these different perspectives can benefit those working in or interested in Media Studies—and provide a dynamic resource for students in BMS and beyond.
BMS Media Theory Wiki
Media Theory Concepts
- Connotation (semiotics)
- Digital Ethnography
- Prosthetic Memory
- Memory (Umberto Eco)
- Phenomenology
- Posthumanism
Media Theorists & Relevant Scholars
- Franz Boas
- Grant Bollmer
- James Gibson
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Michel Foucault
- Sherry Turkle
- Tim Ingold
- Umberto Eco
- Vilèm Flusser
- Walter Benjamin
- Alison Landsberg
- W.J.T Mitchell
Key Media Theory Texts