02016nam 2200481 c 450 991049184790332120230717210145.0978-3-95796-152-5(CKB)5590000000535366(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71269(oapen)doab71269(EXLCZ)99559000000053536620210825c2020uuuu -u- -engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAction at a DistanceJohn Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger, and Christina Vagtmeson pressLüneburg, Germanymeson press20201 electronic resource (78 p.)In Search of Media3-95796-152-1 The mediality of transmission and the materiality of communication result today more than ever in “acting at a distance” – an action whose agency lies in a medium. This book provides an overview into this crucial phenomenon, thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality.Media studiesbicsscNonbooks, PBS / Medien, Kommunikation/MedienwissenschaftMedienwissenschaften: Internet, digitale Medien und GesellschaftDigitalisierungmaterialitymedialitytransmissioncommunicationComputernetzwerke und maschinelle KommunikationComputermodellierung und -simulationMedia studiesPeters John Durhamaut555163Sprenger FlorianautVagt ChristinaautBOOK9910491847903321Action at a Distance2905864UNINA