The intermedial relations of digital media
This seminar addresses two questions: How can intermediality help us understand the digital convergence and hybridity of contemporary media? How do digital media challenge intermediality to evolve?
About the seminar
Elleström’s medial framework (2021) distinguishes the shared features of networked and programmable media and helps to untangle the complex relationships between platforms, digital, communicative resources. It helps in tracing the impact of digital technology on received cultural practices like reading and writing, and how digital practices such as co-creation and sharing transform knowledge communication.
However, the malleable and interactive nature of digital media challenges intermedial theory. What concepts are needed to understand how algorithms, platforms, networks, and artificial intelligence transform communication?
If you want to present a case or problem in your research related to the digital, please contact beate.schirrmacher@lnu.se
If you want to delve deeper into the intermedial relationships of digital media, here are some entry points:
- Herrie, Maja Bak (2024). “The Recommended Experience: Engaging Networked Media Platforms with Intermediality” in Bruhn, López-Varela Azcárate and de Paiva Vieira. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Cham: Palgrave.
- Keylin, Vadim (2024). “Interactive and Participatory Sound” in Bruhn, López-Varela Azcárate and de Paiva Vieira. The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality. Cham: Palgrave.)
- López-Varela Azcárate, Asunción. “Intermedial Semiotics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Challenges and Opportunities for the Arts.” New Techno-Humanities2 (2023): 108–116.
- Witschge, Tamara et al. “Dealing with the Mess (We Made): Unraveling Hybridity, Normativity, and Complexity in Journalism Studies.” Journalism (London, England)5 (2019): 651–659
Beate Schirrmacher is a regular member of IMS. Her research interests include the relation of music and literature, truth claims and narration in news media and digital intermediality.