Media Imaginaries: A Critical Playbook

This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Authors empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological imaginaries and reflecting imaginaries. How do media shape ways of being in the world? This collection explores media imaginaries as a tool for reflection. Media imaginaries are shapeshifters. The term refers to the cultural and infrastructural work of texts and artifacts, audience engagement and experiences, and commercial and civic organizations. The authors in this volume empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries in all their diversity, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological imaginaries, and reflecting imaginaries. The volume explores how media affect both real and imagined experiences, examining the interplay of media practice, culture, and imagination across past, present, and future contexts. It highlights the impact of AI-enabled content and media ecologies on everyday life globally, offering fresh insights for media and cultural studies. Annette Hill is professor of media and communications at Jönköping University, Sweden. Joke Hermes holds the Erik de Vries chair at the University of Amsterdam, and she is professor of inclusion and creative industries at Inholland University, Netherlands. Simon Dawes is a senior lecturer at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Media imaginaries are shape shifters, taking multiple forms as make believe, as thinking outside the box and as social practices. The term media imaginaries refers to the cultural and infrastructural work of texts and artefacts, audience engagement and experiences and commercial and civic organisations. Authors in the collection empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological imaginaries and reflecting imaginaries. Media Imaginaries explores how media shapes both real and imagined experiences, examining the interplay of media practice, culture, and imagination across past, present, and future contexts. It highlights the impact of AI-enabled content and media ecologies on everyday life globally, offering fresh insights for media studies. The collection bridges multiple academic traditions, making it an important and widely relevant contribution to the field.

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