Description
In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.
About the Author
RICHARD GRUSIN is Director at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His publications includeRemediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay Bolter, 1999).
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Book Information
ISBN 9780230242517
Author R. Grusin
Format Hardback
Page Count 196
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
About the Author
RICHARD GRUSIN is Director at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His publications includeRemediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay Bolter, 1999).
Reviews
'In this book, Richard Grusin demonstrates why he is one of the leading media and cultural theorists of our time. Lucid and convincing throughout, Premediation interrogates our mediatized futures, today. It is essential reading.'
- Andrew Hoskins, University of Nottingham, UK
'Premediation offers an important counterpoint to the hegemony of futurism, a critical analysis of how visions and narratives of the future require more than a second glance. Grusin remediates his well known work on media, technology and time through an affective political sphere; one that, he argues, is cultivating an uncanny feeling of inevitability.'
- Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada
Book Information
ISBN 9780230242517
Author R. Grusin
Format Hardback
Page Count 196
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
