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guide 1.
introduction 2.
method as field of discussion
3. practice
4. theory
5. conclusion and further discussions
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theory |
4.1 the dialectic of “reading” and “writing” Media Education 4.2 the novelty and distinctiveness of digital media forms Digital Media Research |
4.2.1 Developers discourse 4.2.2 How did practice develop our knowledge of digital media? 4.2.3 The novelty and distinctiveness of digitalisation and practice-based method 4.2.4 Summary section 4.2. Digital Media Research What does the preceding section tell us about how practice-based method may inform studies of digital media? Confronted with the novelty and distinctiveness of digital media forms, humanities and digital media studies may benefit from a close relation to the construction and development of digital media, in this way avoiding reducing “insight into hindsight”, according to Liestøl (1999:26) [49. to specify “close” in relation to practice-based]. This is not to disparage traditional analytic theories and concepts or traditional critical methods in the humanities but part of an argument of how the complexity and novelty of digital media requires knowledge from both domains, that is, from both production and analysis, construction and interpretation. In addition to a face-to-face confrontation with the impact of core concepts of present media production and analytical writings, practice-based method may inform studies of digital media with more adequate and distinct apparatus that may cover significant aspects of the new practices and novel digital media forms. This might level the distance between object and concepts of digital media studies. Fine distinction between available technology and expressive culture is a crucial part of media studies, and in this context, of digital media studies. In the following section, I will look into another significant feature of digitalisation which may form a breake with traditional media and communication technologies, practices and knowledge about them, which, in turn, makes us to rethink resources and methods of studies of digital media pressing. This is the multimodal ability of digital communication [50. omnipresent multimodality]. |
4.3 multimodal digital media and visualised culture A matter of method? 4.4 “artifacts of expression” and “expressive artifacts” Exploring theory through practice |
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Practice-based Method. Exploring Digital Media through
the Dynamics of Practice, Theory, and Collaborative, Multimedia Performance
Hovedoppgave i mediavitenskap for cand.filol
graden, Universitetet i Oslo, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Mai
2006, Idunn Sem
