Materialist Media Theory

Grant Bollmer is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at North Carolina State University, USA, where he teaches in the Department of Communication and the PhD Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and an Honorary Associate of the Department of Media and Communications at The University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of the books Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection (2016) and Theorizing Digital Cultures (2018).

• Introduction: Thinking About (and in) the Materiality of Media 1. Representations and Performances 2. Inscriptions and Techniques3. Spaces and Times4. Bodies and Brains5. Objects and AffectsConclusion: Ten Theses on the Materiality of MediaAcknowledgmentsWorks CitedIndex

Materialist Media Theory is much more than just an introduction. Instead, Bollmer’s book is an attempt, and a very successful one, to reshape the domain of media studies by defending a special take on the major issues and stakes of the field as well as by critically rereading a large number of its foundational and contemporary thinkers.