Gentzel P (2023)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2023
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edited Volumes: The Forgotten Subject. Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds.
City/Town: London/Wiesbaden
Pages Range: 79-103
ISBN: 9783658428716
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-42872-3_5
The article shows that the conceptions of subjectivity and materiality mutually refer to each other, but that this is neither adequately taken into account in traditional communication and media research nor in the discussion of practice theories, science and technology studies (STS) and actor-network theories (ANT). First, some basic assumptions of traditional communication analyses are discussed, which are said to be based on a psychologically truncated understanding of subjects and, at best, an undifferentiated treatment of media objects or media materiality. Theories of practice are also criticized for their bias towards reproduction and order, as well as for their deficient concept of the subject. With the help of STS and ANT, analytical models and findings on the meaning of media objects and materiality are also presented. Finally, with the help of Martin Heidegger’s technology analyses, a path for the critical adaptation of practice and material turn for communication and media analyses is outlined.
APA:
Gentzel, P. (2023). Materiality, Technology and the Subject: Elements of Critical Communication and Media Analysis. In Peter Gentzel, Friedrich Krotz, Jeffrey Wimmer, Rainer Winter (Eds.), The Forgotten Subject. Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds. (pp. 79-103). London/Wiesbaden: Palgrave Macmillan.
MLA:
Gentzel, Peter. "Materiality, Technology and the Subject: Elements of Critical Communication and Media Analysis." The Forgotten Subject. Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds. Ed. Peter Gentzel, Friedrich Krotz, Jeffrey Wimmer, Rainer Winter, London/Wiesbaden: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 79-103.
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