mediology

Noun

mediology (countable and uncountable, plural mediologies)

1. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, created by Régis Debray in 1979, that pays specific attention to human symbolic activity and to technology, especially as a medium of cultural transmission.
   • What mediology wishes to bring to light is the way in which something serves as a medium, and the often unperceived complexities that go with it, looking back over the long term (from the birth of writing) without being overly concerned with present-day media (even if certain mediologists are...2007, Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, M. B. DeBevoise, The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought, →ISBN, page 289
   • Against the background of the radically constructivist mediologies of Vilem Flusser and Niklas Luhmann, Berressem argues that Deleuze's radical philosophy allows for a fundamental realignment of the ecological notions of the environment and the medium.2009, Bernd Herzogenrath, Deleuze/Guattari & ecology, →ISBN, page 11
2. The study of mass media and its influence.
   • I do not believe any mass mediology can predict the effect of a mass media message.1978, Altro Polo, →ISBN, page 114
   • There was no media research in the strict sense during this period. Mediology did not yet exist.2006, Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, Thomas Tufte, Communication for Social Change Anthology, →ISBN
3. The use of mass media.
   • It is everywhere visible in hard data about four key elements of that culture: film. television, books, and theme parks. But it is not limited to such elements, for they are but pieces of a mesmerizing global mediology that suffuses consciousness everywhere.2001, Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy, →ISBN, page 84
   • The Hegelian master, for all his violence and terror, still requires literature, names, memory, and readerships—in other words, the public sphere. Such Hegelian mediologies are radically evacuated and removed from all living supports of translation, witnessing, and transmission in the war to end...2015, Allen Feldman, Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory, →ISBN