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mediologist en · NOUN

Etymology

From mediology + -ist.

Meanings

1. A proponent or student of mediology.
   • The mediologist busies himself with the forms of media like Marcel Proust with his petites madeleines, or Sigmund Freud with his slips. 1996, Régis Debray, Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms:
   • 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). 2007, Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, M. B. DeBevoise, The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought, →ISBN, page 289:
   • For a mediologist to base his choice (parametrically, he might argue) on the most basic, mechanical attributes of the photograph (nimble and spontaneous) appears ill thought-out, irresponsible even, given his call on the following page for a 'critical spirit in the face of audiovisual bombardment'. 2010, Mick Gidley, Writing with Light: Words and Photographs in American Texts, →ISBN:

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