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Media and the imaginary in history: the role of the fantastic in different stages of media change
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posted on 2015-11-16, 13:36 authored by Simone NataleSimone Natale, Gabriele BalbiThis paper discusses how media theory and history should approach specimens of evidence about the cultural reception of media pertaining to the realms of the fantastic, such as speculations, predictions, dreams, and other forms of fantasy regarding media. It argues that the role of the imaginary in the history of media can be fully comprehended only by employing a perspective which is dynamic in time. In different phases of a medium's evolution, in fact, we find different fantasies; it follows that we need specific approaches to study them. The article discusses fantasies which are specific to three stages in media change: those preceding the actual invention of a medium; those accompanying the earliest period after the introduction of a new medium; and those connected to old media. © 2014 Taylor and Francis.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Media HistoryVolume
20Issue
2Pages
203 - 218Citation
NATALE, S. and BALBI, G., 2014. Media and the imaginary in history: the role of the fantastic in different stages of media change. Media History, 20 (2), pp. 203 - 218.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2014Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Media History on 19th March 2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13688804.2014.898904ISSN
1368-8804eISSN
1469-9729Publisher version
Language
- en