Wild blue media : thinking through seawater

Author(s)

    • Jue, Melody

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Wild blue media : thinking through seawater

Melody Jue

(Elements / a series edited by Stacy Alaimo and Nicole Starosielski)

Duke University Press, 2020

  • : hardcover

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Bibliography: p. [193]-207

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment-a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived. By recentering media theory on and under the sea, Jue calls attention to the differences between perceptual environments and how we think within and through them as embodied observers. In doing so, she provides media studies with alternatives to familiar theoretical frameworks, thereby challenging scholars to navigate unfamiliar oceanic conditions of orientation, materiality, and saturation. Jue not only examines media about the ocean-science fiction narratives, documentary films, ocean data visualizations, animal communication methods, and underwater art-but reexamines media through the ocean, submerging media theory underwater to estrange it from terrestrial habits of perception while reframing our understanding of mediation, objectivity, and metaphor.

Table of Contents

Preface: Into the Blue ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Thinking through Seawater 1 1. Interface / Breathing Underwater 34 2. Inscription / Vampire Squid Media 71 3. Database / Proteus and the Digital 112 4. Underwater Museums / Diving as Method 142 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209

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Details

  • NCID
    BC04959048
  • ISBN
    • 9781478006121
  • LCCN
    2019024145
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Durham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 216 p., [8] p. of plates
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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