Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and

Media/Theoryis an accessible yet challenging guide to thinking about media and communications in modern life. Shaun Moores connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social theory:Time; Space; Relationships; Meanings; and Experiences. He insists that media studies are not simply about studying media. Rather, they require an understanding of how technologically mediated communication is bound up with wider processes in the modern world, from the reproduction of social life on an everyday basis to the reorganization of social relations on a global scale. Drawing on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,Media/Theorymakes a distinctive contribution towards rethinking the shape and direction of media studies today.

Shaun Moores is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Time and space	p. 7
Cyclicity	p. 9
Structuration	p. 9
Routines	p. 10
Traditions	p. 14
Dailiness	p. 16
Seriality	p. 19
Scheduling	p. 20
Ordinariness	p. 22
Hourliness	p. 25
Lifetime	p. 27
Eventfulness	p. 29
Extensionality	p. 35
Globalisation	p. 35
Stretching	p. 38
Medium	p. 42
Shrinking	p. 46
Unevenness	p. 50
Network	p. 51
Flow	p. 53
Empires	p. 56
Permeability	p. 58
Virtuality	p. 64
Relationships, meanings and experiences	p. 67
Interaction	p. 69
Typology	p. 69
Mix	p. 73
Intimacy	p. 74
Grief	p. 78
Pathologisation	p. 81
Sociability	p. 83
Conversationalisation	p. 91
Face	p. 93
Friendliness	p. 98
Doubling	p. 99
Signification	p. 103
Connotation	p. 103
Multiaccentuality	p. 106
Decoding	p. 109
Export	p. 112
Acts	p. 118
Context	p. 120
Technologies	p. 122
Tastes	p. 126
Fallacy	p. 133
Authentication	p. 135
Identity	p. 139
Trust	p. 139
Inattention	p. 141
Reflexivity	p. 143
Risk	p. 146
Labour	p. 153
Performativity	p. 158
MUDding	p. 160
Community	p. 163
Diasporas	p. 169
Dwellings	p. 173
Afterword	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 179
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