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A medium is anything that mediates our interaction with the world or other humans. Given this perspective, media study is not restricted to just media of communications but all forms of technology. Media and their users form an ecosystem, and the study of this ecosystem is known as media ecology. Media ecology also holds that our environment ...
Domestication theory is an approach in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and media studies that describe the processes by which technology is 'tamed' or appropriated by its users. The theory was originally created by Roger Silverstone, who described four steps that technology goes through when being adapted into peoples' lives:
Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces. The term also refers to coherent systems of human relations, technical objects, and cybernetic processes that inhere to large, complex infrastructures.
Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...
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Media culture; Media ecology; The Media Equation; Media evaluation; Media literacy; Media Practice Model; Media psychology; Market for loyalties theory; Media watchdog; Media weight; MediaSmarts; Mediated quasi-interaction; Mediatization (media) Medientage München; The medium is the message; Mult box; Multiliteracy; Multimedia studies
In the Arab region, media and information literacy was largely ignored up until 2011, when the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut, the Open Society Foundations and the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) launched a regional conference themed "New Directions: Digital and Media Literacy".
The creative class is the posit of American urban studies theorist Richard Florida for an ostensible socioeconomic class.Florida, a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, [1] maintains that the creative class is a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in North America.