The Screen Media Reader: Culture, Theory, Practice

Product Description

As mobile communication, social media, wireless networks, and flexible user interfaces become prominent topics in the study of media and culture, the screen emerges as a critical research area. This reader brings together insightful and influential texts from a variety of sources-theorists, researchers, critics, inventors, and artists-that explore the screen as a fundamental element not only in popular culture but also in our very understanding of society and the world.

The Screen Media Reader is a foundational resource for studying the screen and its cultural impact. Through key contemporary and historical texts addressing the screen's development and role in communications and the social sphere, it considers how the screen functions as an idea, an object, and an everyday experience. Reflecting a number of descriptive and analytical approaches, these essays illustrate the astonishing range and depth of the screen's introduction and application in multiple media configurations and contexts. Together they demonstrate the long-standing influence of the screen as a cultural concept and communication tool that extends well beyond contemporary debates over screen saturation and addiction.

About the Author

Stephen Monteiro is Assistant Professor of media and visual culture in the departments of Global Communications, Film Studies, and Art History at The American University of Paris, France. He developed and continues to direct the track in Visual and Material Culture Studies in the Master of Arts in Global Communications. He has been a research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2010) and a visiting professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi (2012).