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Theories of Media Keywords Glossary
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absence, presence
abstraction
advertising
aesthetics
affect
agent, agency
alterity
amateur
analog, digital
anamorphosis
animation
architecture
archive
artifact
audience
aura
authenticity
avant-garde
beautiful, sublime
body, embodiment
channel
code
collective consciousness
color
comics
common sense
communication
creativity, creative, create
cybernetics
cyberspace
cyborg
dance
dialectic
discourse
drawing
ear
ekphrasis
event
exhibit, exhibition
expression
face
fantasy
fantasy (2)
fashion
fidelity
figurative/figural (vs. literal), figure/ground
film
filter
forgery
form
frame
frame (2)
game
gaze
genre
gesture
gesture (2)
graphic
graphic novel
grotesque
hieroglyphics
hypermedia
icon
iconoclasm, iconoclash
ideology
image
imagination
immediacy, immediate
information
installation
installation (2)
intention
interactive
interpellation
intuition
involution
irony
kanji
keyword
kitsch
landscape
language
law
liminal
listen
literacy
logic
magazine
manuscript
map, land
mask
mass media
materiality
mediation, mediology, mediascape, mediasphere
Melos/Opsis/Lexis
meme
memory (1)
memory (2)
metaphor/metonym
mimesis
mimesis (2)
mind
mirror
mode
modernism
money
montage
movement
multimedia
narrative, lyric, drama
network
newspaper
noise
notation
numbness
objecthood
object petit a
olfaction
orality
painting
perception, perceivability
perception (2)
performance, performativity
perspective
phenomenon
photography
picture
poetics
postal system
practice
process
projection
propaganda
prosthetics
protocol
purity
radio
reading
reality, hyperreality (1)
reality, hyperreality (2)
reception
reciprocity
repetition
replica
representation
rhetoric
rhizome
scopic, vocative
screen (1)
screen (2)
sculpture
semiosis, semiotics, semiology
senses
sequence
shock
sign, signal
silence
simulation, simulacrum (1)
simulation, simulacrum (2)
site
specificity (as in medium specificity)
spectator, spectacle
spectator, spectacle (2)
speech
spirit
star
stimulus/stimulation
storage
structure
surface
symbol/Index/Icon
Symbolic, Imaginary, Real
synaesthesia (1)
synaesthesia (2)
syntax
system
tableau vivant
taste
taste (2)
technology
telegraph
telematics
telephone
telephone (2)
television
text
theater
thing
time, space
touch, tactility
transitivity/intransitivity
translation
transmitter, transmission
typeprint
uncanny
unconscious, subconscious
universal
ut pictura poesis
vehicle
veil
video
virtuality
virus
voice, sound
wiki
window
writing
zoographia
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