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MA RK AL AN MAT T E S University of Louisville This essay does not propose a definition of media. Nor does it trace the conceptualization of media across time. Instead, taking for granted that media are semiotic, material, technology, practice, or protocol—and are often simultaneously so—this essay instead explores how scholars address- ing early American material texts conceptualize the presence of and the shifts in such simultaneities. It does so by invoking a term drawn from communication studies, intermediality (and its related terms, intermedia and intermedial), as a framework for addressing the following questions. First, how do scholars explore the integrated levels of mediation that any medium registers? Second, how do scholars recognize “that media represent and delimit representing” both in the past and in our own time? Finally, how do scholars of material texts range beyond textual media in order to illumi- nate such simultaneities and shifts? In attempting to answer these questions, and in order to underline the importance that concepts of simultaneity and shift often hold for makers of material texts themselves, it helps to recognize an early American media theorist in his own right. In 1826 Joseph Emerson, principal of the Female Seminary in
Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Nov 5, 2018
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