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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- References -- Part I: Digital Media as Recording Devices -- Between Formats and Data: When Communication Becomes Recording -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Communication and Recording -- 2.1 Content, Inscription, Document -- 2.2 Recording as Communication -- 3 From Bits to Formats -- 3.1 The Digital as a Calculation that Does Not Make Sense -- 3.2 The Digital: Anonymous and Wanderer -- 3.3 Formats -- 4 From Documents to Data -- 4.1 Signs Interpreted, Manipulated Technical Units -- 4.2 Data as Coincidence of Manipulation and Interpretation -- 5 Conclusion: Conditions for Intelligibility and Freedom to Interpret -- References -- From Capital to Documediality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Documents, Not Commodities -- 3 Mobilization, Not Labor -- 4 Recognition, Not Sustenance -- 5 Self-Affirmation, Not Alienation -- 6 Atomization, Not Classification -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Recording the Web -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Is the Web an Archive? -- 3 Tracking as a Way of Recording the Web -- 4 Web Archives as a Way of Recording the Web -- 5 Conclusion: Towards a Historical Study of Tracking -- References -- You Press the Button, We Do the Rest. Personal Archiving in Capture Culture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Recording to Capturing -- 3 Mnemotechniques and Mnemotechnologies -- 4 From the Mass of Comparative Lumber to the Techno-Value of Data Excess -- 5 Ubiquitous Capture and Involuntary Sedimentation -- 6 Modes of Counteracting the Involuntary Archive -- 7 Conclusion: Towards Post-Digital Mnemotechniques -- References -- Part II: Consequences of Digital Recording -- Ecyclopedias, Hive Minds and Global Brains. A Cognitive Evolutionary Account of Wikipedia -- 1 A Sinner's Confession -- 2 Encyclopedias and Hive Minds.

1. The disruptive power of the written word -- 2. The mediation of politics -- 3. Encoding the universe -- 4. The question of objectivity -- 5. Automata and the metaphor of the machine -- 6. Form, matter, and simulation -- 7. Analogue and digital -- 8. Technological determinism : a social science fiction? -- 9. Global media society -- 10. End of modern politics? -- 11. Technological innovation and time -- 12. Digitality and an ethic of responsibility

By looking back to the early days of network building within the Internet, Clemens Apprich looks at how those pioneer projects have shaped new forms of media and social practices, and critically engages with current discourses about the weal and woe of the Internet.

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the rare contemporary philosophers who insist on the relevance of Hegel's thesis that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought. Philosophy's duty to reflect on contemporary phenomena, according to him, is primarily concerned with the necessity of the adequate reflections of the media. Philosophy of the media, inter connected with the metadisciplinary cultural thought, could be acknowledged as Sloterdijk's contribution to the philosophical project of the enlarged mind. Unlike his predecessors, Sloterdijk will no longer possess confidence in the academic aura of spiritual sciences, unless they have managed to distance themselves from the stigma of their Eurocentrically motivated origin. There fore Sloterdijk's reflection on the media is in a unique relation to the analysis of the European tradition in the light of new integrations. Arguing for the necessity that Europe breaks up with the imperialistic in hesitance, the author examines the contemporary tendencies, especially the productivity of the tertium datur logic which reflects it self in the abandoning of the radical attitude either/or, and turning to the more integrative and/and: which means both an extensive critique and a inherent confidence into the existent world.

It behoves a media philosophical appraisal of the computer game—invested as media philosophy is in how media engender modalities of thought — to grapple with the computer game's heritage. Specifically, the essay addresses an issue raised by attention to the computer game's historical intertwinement with the military and industry: the extent to which these cybernetic machines, overdetermined by their techno-epistemic conditions, continue to perpetuate the ways of thinking from which they derived. The first section of the essay reconstructs parts of this history, drawing primarily on Claus Pias's computer game genealogy: Computer Game Worlds (2017). It pays particular attention to how the prehistory of time-critical action games reveals their close relationship with and tacit optimization of player pre-reflective perceptual and sensorimotor capacities. The second section considers the lasting implications of the computer game's historical a priori vis-à-vis their propensity to train their users. It engages with Patrick Crogan's argument in Gameplay Mode (2011) that computer games are the "reproduction rather than simply the 'product' of […] Cold War mentality" and foregrounds his claims as important considerations for any attempt to think media philosophically with and through the medium (2011, p.105). That said, the essay concludes recouping the computer game by way of the very training function it appears condemnable for. Drawing on Mark Hansen (2000), my contention is that Pias and Crogan place in relief what I figure as a creative consequence of computer game play with implications for media philosophy: brokering our corporeal, pre-reflective adaptation to and, thus, agency within our contemporary lifeworld. It is by virtue of, not in spite of, computer games cybernetically working on us that they potentiate ways of thinking about and living in digital culture.

The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound implications of his unique philosophical project for our understanding of today's mediascape. The full range of Heidegger's writing from Being and Time to his later essays is drawn upon. Topics covered include: - an analysis of Heidegger's theory of language and its relevance to communications studies - a critical interpretation of mass media and digital culture that draws upon Heidegger's key concept of Dasein - a discussion of mediated being and its objectifying tendencies - an assessment of Heidegger's legacy for future developments in media theory Clear explanations and accessible commentary are used to guide the reader through the work of a thinker whose notorious reputation belies the highly topical nature of his key insights. In a world full of digital networks and new social media, but little critical insight, Heidegger and the Mediashows how a true understanding of the media requires familiarity with Heidegger's unique brand of thinking.

The media informs, entertains, and connects us. It is woven into the fabric of politics. Its increasing immediacy has become an inescapable feature of almost everybody's life. We are, at the same time, subject to the media and participants in it. The ethical questions it raises have never been more urgent. Trust is in short supply, but we need to share information while dealing with problems like misinformation, disinformation, and echo chambers. And what responsibilities fall on the state, and on other actors such as artists, advertisers, and social media users, as we reckon with endemic problems like racism, sexism, and classism? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics is an outstanding survey and assessment of this vitally important field. Comprising thirty chapters written by an international team of contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Freedom of Speech, Privacy, and Censorship The News Media Broadening the Scope: Giving Other Aspects of the Media their Due Justice, Power, and Representation Vice and Virtue Online The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, media and communication studies, politics, and law, as well as practising media professionals and journalists.

"Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional media such as television, radio, and print, media provide the framework for our engagement with the world and each other. By recasting the traditional concerns of media studies through the lens of the work of Deleuze and Guattari this book provides an innovative new toolkit for understanding how media shape our world. Taking as their central question what it is that media do, Harper and Savat offer a new and insightful approach to this exciting area of study."--Bloomsbury Publishing