From Intermediality to Intermateriality: Actor-Network Theory as a “Translation” of Post-Essentialist Media Studies

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Author(s): Andrea Seier (University of Vienna, Austria)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 13
Source title: Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Markus Spöhrer (University of Konstanz, Germany)and Beate Ochsner (University of Konstanz, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch003

Keywords: Digital Communications / Digital Media / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter discusses Actor-Network Theory in the context of post-essentialist theories in Media Studies. In doing so, the similarities and differences between different models and concepts will be taken into consideration, such as dispositive, assemblage and actant networks. The chapter argues that instead of replacing models of micro-political analysis of media with ANT, it should rather be combined with such in a productive way. This argument will be put to the test by using the example of the remote control.

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