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  * Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey u. Wutz, Michael: Introduction: Media--Models, Memories, and Metaphors. Configurations 10/1 (2002) S. 1-10.

|Abstract: More on media? Another collection? Why? The simple answer is that some matters become clearer by heightened exposure, but media do not. While it is now impossible to hide from a term that only a few decades ago hardly made it into respectable encyclopedias, its inflated use has escalated into growing obscurity. Try to answer the question: What are media? Artificial storage and communication tools, technological systems, metaphors with knobs and dials, prostheses of the human body, evolutionary achievements that render the improbable probable? Do academic distinctions such as media studies, media ecology, media theory (as opposed to "medium theory"), media science, media discourse analysis, mediasphere, mediascape -- not to mention mediology or mediatrics -- presuppose one and the same thing? Medium or media were a great deal easier to define in their bygone, low-profile days when, depending on the specialization of the observer, they had something to do with either grammar, numbers, or listening to dead celebrities. Such is the conceptual fuzziness that it has even become impossible to define what is not a medium, since it appears that anything or anybody can...|
