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posted on 2016-05-16, 10:53 authored by Simone NataleSimone Natale
Despite its recent ubiquity in scholarly and popular publications, relatively little attempts have been made to interrogate the meanings and implications of the notion of “old media.” This article discusses this notion in the context of theoretical debates within media and communication studies. Defining old media as artefacts, technologies, or in terms of their social use is problematic, since media constantly change, resisting clear-cut definitions related to age. The article therefore proposes to treat new media as a relational concept: not an attribute characterizing media as such, but an element of how people perceive and imagine them. Rhetoric, everyday experience, and emotions are key contexts where new ground can be found to redefine the concept of “old media.”

History

Published in

Journal of Communication

Volume

66

Issue

4

Pages

585-603

Citation

NATALE, S., 2016. There are no old media. Journal of Communication, 66 (4), pp. 585-603.

Publisher

Wiley / © International Communication Association

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-04-26

Publication date

2016-05-31

Notes

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: NATALE, S., 2016. There are no old media. Journal of Communication, 66 (4), pp. 585-603., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12235. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions

ISSN

1460-2466

Language

  • en