The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
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Ruth Alexandra Moran, 'The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015, pp 356Download Item:
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In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This project addresses the problem of how we can account for the medium in contemporary digital culture. It reviews digital media arts scholarship since the emergence of digital technology, identifying how it has responded to various stages in the development of that technology, identifying the revolutionary, evolutionary, and hybrid aspects of digital mediation, and the initial signs of digital specificity. Also reviewed as part of the literature is Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion’s The Cinema as a Model for the Genealogy of Media (2002). Applying the stages of medium development that they describe in their model to the trajectory of digital medium development as elucidated by existing scholarship, I identify a correspondence between the development of the digital medium and the preliminary stages of their model - ‘irruption’ and ‘monstration’. Existing scholarship lacked an identification or discussion of the autonomy - the final stage of their model - of the digital medium. Accordingly, I initially asked: in contemporary digital culture, can we account for the autonomous digital medium? In light of the ubiquity and mutability of digital technology, I acknowledge the futility of attempting to define a digital medium in the context of media convergence. In order to focus the project of research, I look to the field of online video and refine the project’s research question thus: Whether and to what extent does online video articulate the autonomy of the digital audiovisual medium? Adapting Gaudreault and Marion’s model for application to online video, I identify, through existing scholarship, the technological specificities of the mediation of online video - digital data, the loop, the interface and the database.
Author: Moran, Ruth Alexandra
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Causey, MatthewQuigley, Paula
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Publisher:
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