Wild Blue Media - Thinking Through Seawater

Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.

List of contents

Preface: Into the Blue  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction / Thinking through Seawater  1
1. Interface / Breathing Underwater  34
2. Inscription / Vampire Squid Media  71
3. Database / Proteus and the Digital  112
4. Underwater Museums / Diving as Method  142
Notes  167
Bibliography  193
Index  209

About the author

Melody Jue is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Summary

Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.

Product details

• Authors: Melody Jue
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781478006978
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0697-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Elements; Elements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Philosophie, Humangeographie