mediology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, created by Régis Debray in 1979, that pays specific attention to human symbolic activity and to technology, especially as a medium of cultural transmission.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "What mediology wishes to bring to light is the way in which something serves as a medium, and the often unperceived complexities that go with it, looking back over the long term (from the birth of writing) without being overly concerned with present-day media (even if certain mediologists are prepared to consider these)."
- "Against the background of the radically constructivist mediologies of Vilem Flusser and Niklas Luhmann, Berressem argues that Deleuze's radical philosophy allows for a fundamental realignment of the ecological notions of the environment and the medium."
- "Mediology is interdisciplinary by nature and, therefore, unstable and constantly defining new avenues of inquiry that reveal the mechanisms of history itself."
- "It would be, were it not for the powers attributed to mediology, which Debray defines as a battle against a marked Western tendency, 'la coupure de l'esthétique' [the split between aesthetics and technology] (ibid.: 163)."
- "I do not believe any mass mediology can predict the effect of a mass media message."
- "There was no media research in the strict sense during this period. Mediology did not yet exist."
Etymology
Borrowed from French médiologie.