• Media as Channel

    Author(s):
    Ilana Gershon (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Anthropology, Labor Studies
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/e9by-pc08
    Abstract:
    To understand how people navigate shifting media ecologies, linguistic anthropologists have turned to an array of analytical concepts that address how people communicate when using multiple channels: media ideologies, remediation, participant structures, heteroglossia, and entextualization. After demonstrating how these concepts are pertinent to the anthropological study of media, we also discuss two co-constitutive ways of engaging with a varied media ecology – media coalescence and media-switching. By media coalescence, we mean two processes. First, what occurs to allow media to be stable enough to become shared, discussed, and utilized through particular forms of practice. Second, we also mean the process by which stable identities are actively maintained across media for certain types of complicated social tasks. Media-switching, for our purposes, is the perception that one is moving from one ostensibly stable, discrete medium to another.
    Metadata:
    xml
    Published as:
    Book chapter     Show details
    Publisher:
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc
    Pub. Date:
    16 July 2020
    Book Title:
    International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
    Author/Editor:
    James Stanlaw
    Chapter:
    Media as Channel
    ISBN:
    9781118786093
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 months ago
    License:
    Attribution
    Share this:

    Downloads

    Item Name: pdf kohl.gershon.mediachannel2021.pdf
      Download View in browser
    Activity: Downloads: 15

    Back to Deposits