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In
Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our 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. By recentering media theory on and under the sea, Jue calls attention to the differences between perceptual environments and how we think within and through them as embodied observers. In doing so, she provides media studies with alternatives to familiar theoretical frameworks, thereby challenging scholars to navigate unfamiliar oceanic conditions of orientation, materiality, and saturation. Jue not only examines media about the ocean-science fiction narratives, documentary films, ocean data visualizations, animal communication methods, and underwater art-but reexamines media
through the ocean, submerging media theory underwater to estrange it from terrestrial habits of perception while reframing our understanding of mediation, objectivity, and metaphor.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Melody Jue is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Résumé
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.
