Media Matter

Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series <i>Media Matter</i> introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies by extending the understanding of medium to include a concept of materiality that also includes non-human transmitters (elements such as water earth fire air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses relays transistors hardware or discourse networks but more inclusively in terms of a media ecology.<br/><br/>Beginning with more general essays on media and then focusing on particular themes (neuroplasticity photography sculpture and music) especially in relation to film Herzogenrath and the contributors redefine the concept of medium in order to think through media rather than about them.