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History of Media Studies
ISSN 2637-6091 · mediastudies.press · 58 articles in the index
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Perspectivas en torno a la configuración histórica de los estudios sobre medios indígenas en Argentina
The aim of this article is to analyze the historical course of Indigenous communication studies in Argentina within the broader context of Latin America. To this end, it explores the concepts, institutions and biographies of the actors involved in the process of emergence and incipient…
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Film as a Dream of the Modern Man: Interpretation of Susanne Langer’s “Note on the Film”
The paper concerns a “Note on the Film,” a short appendix to Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer. The interpretation interweaves the Note into a larger context of Langer’s philosophical work—primarily in terms of her understanding of the dream as a lower symbolic form, to which the film is…
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The History of Communication Studies across the Americas: An Introduction
This special section investigates the history of communication and media studies across national and linguistic contexts in the Americas. It maps transnational entanglements that have shaped communication inquiry in the multiple forms it has taken in South and North America and the Caribbean. At…
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Forgetting / Cybernetics
This article aims to trace epistemological connections between cybernetics and German media theory by emphasizing the notion of forgetting. This notion is presented as a central condition for problematizing, first, the human-machine coupling pointed out by cybernetics and, second, the rise of the…
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Coloniality and Resistance: The Revolutionary Moment in Communication Study in the Anglophone Caribbean
This essay discusses the development of communication and media studies in the Anglophone Caribbean. Despite the prolific work of Anglophone researchers and scholars and over half a century of institutional engagement in media and communication education and training, a body of knowledge…
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‘Western Communication’: Eurocentrism and Modernity: Marks of the Predominant Theories in the Field
Cultural imperialism was once the subject of a vibrant debate in international scholarship. Yet, the debate on cultural imperialism has lost much of its previous influence and centrality. This does not mean that cultural imperialism has lost its relevance. On the contrary, in the wake of the…
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Notes for Historicizing the Disintegrated Internationalization of Communication Studies in Latin America
This essay characterizes a “disintegrated internationalization” as the main trend in the development of communication studies in Latin America. This hypothetical approach is based on critical readings of multiple bibliographical sources generated in the most recent decades and published in Spanish…