Toward a media maintenance approach (MEMA): Maintenance as a theoretical tool for media studies
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Ferrigato R.,
Balbi G.
Tipo
Articolo pubblicato in rivista scientifica
Anno
2025
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
This paper introduces and discusses a theoretical approach for media scholars: the media maintenance approach (MEMA). Maintenance is not a new subject of study in social sciences and humanities, but it has been rarely addressed by media studies so far. After reviewing literature about maintenance in history of technology, philosophy of technology, and STS, and defining the concept of “maintenance”, the paper turns to media studies and examines how current (sub)fields, such as media archaeology, ecomedia, media sustainability, media history, media evolution, audience and users’ studies, labor studies, and PEC have already addressed issues related to maintenance and to maintaining forms or practices of communication. MEMA can gather, connect and enrich these existing perspectives and can advance a unified and integrated approach able to combine continuity and change, but also conservation and innovation in media studies. In the conclusion, the paper addresses three “benefits” that MEMA can bring to media studies, all dealing with different degrees of temporalities.
Periodico
Media, Culture & Society
Pagine (o numero dell’articolo)
01634437251377966
ISSN
0163-4437, 1460-3675
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Licenza non definita
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