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



Key Media Theorists
Jean Baudrillard
Hakim Bey
Manuel Castells
Critical Art Ensemble
Guy Debord
Regis Debray
Timothy Druckery
Willem Flusser
Frank Hartmann
Harold Innis
Douglas Kellner
Geert Lovink
Niklas Luhmann
Peter Lunenfeld
Marshall McLuhan
Lev Manovich
Nicholas Negroponte
Florian Rotzer
Kaja Silverman
Paul Virilio
Raymond Williams