Full Description
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for future engagements with media theory, research, and practice. Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought together a number of media scholars with differing paradigmatic backgrounds to debate the relative applicability of existing theories and in doing so develop a new approach: polymediation. Each contributor's disciplinary background is diverse, spanning interpersonal communication, media studies, organizational communication, instructional design, rhetoric, mass communication, gender studies, popular culture studies, informatics, and persuasion. Although each of these scholars brings with them a unique perspective on media's role in people's lives, what binds them together is the belief that meaningful discourse about media must be an ongoing conversation that is open to critique and revision in a rapidly changing mediated culture. By studying media in a polymediated way, Beyond New Media addresses more completely our complex relationship to media(tion) in our everyday lives.
Contents
Introduction: The Beginnings: #WeNeedaWord, Adam W. Tyma, Andrew F. Herrmann, and Art Herbig
Chapter 1: I am you and you are we and we are all...me? Understanding Media and/as Context (The Road to Polymediation), Adam W. Tyma
Chapter 2: Polymediation: The Relationship between Self and Media, Michelle Calka
Chapter 3: Rhetoric and Polymediation: Using Fragments to Understand the Relationship between "Text" and Discourse, Art Herbig
Chapter 4: Communicating, Sensemaking and (Dis)Organizing: An Existential Phenomenological Framework for Polymediating, Andrew F. Herrmann
Chapter 5: Ipsedixitism, Ipseity, and Ipsilateral Identity: The Fear of Finding Ourselves in Catfish, Jimmie Manning
Chapter 6: Polyreality, Robert Andrew Dunn
Chapter 7: Hashtagging Feminism: Tetradic Polymediated Activism, Danielle M. Stern and Chelsea Henderson
Chapter 8: Technology as Engagement: How We Learn and Teach while Polymediating the Classroom, Katherine J. Denker, Andrew F. Herrmann, and Michael D. D. Willits
Conclusion: Concluding a Book and Opening a Discourse, Art Herbig, Andrew F. Herrmann, and Adam W. Tyma
