When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies†

Autor:	Raka Shome
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	060104 history Cultural Studies 0508 media and communications Communication 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies 0601 history and archaeology 06 humanities and the arts Sociology Computer Science Applications
Zdroj:	Communication, Culture and Critique. 12:305-322
ISSN:	1753-9137 1753-9129
DOI:	10.1093/ccc/tcz020
Popis:	This article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that have not received any place in media history. Nor are they recognized as a media object. The basic questions that this article raises are: (a) what happens to our understanding of media’s development when we complicate the temporality (North Atlantic Western) through which we narrate the history of media, and (b) What happens to our understanding of what media is when 24/7 electrification is not taken as a norm in our recognition of a media or technology object. What other media objects and mediated lives might then become visible?
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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