Mediology

Quick meaning: Mediology is a noun meaning The study of mass media and its influence.

Meaning

The study of mass media and its influence.

More Meanings

1. The use of mass media.
2. 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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).

Word Forms

• mediologies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mediologist, materiology, medievistics, modality, communicology, sociomateriality.

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