1st Edition
Emerging Digital Media Ecologies The Concept of Medialogy
PART 1: HISTORY AND THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING 1. Locating Media Ecologies: Ecosophy and Anthropogenic Events 2. Archaeological and Archival Media 3. Network Nature’s Algorithmic Turn 4. Biomedia and the Post-Digital Age PART 2: TECHNECOLOGIES 5. Exploring Hyper-Personalised Media Confluence: The New Era of Media Consumption and Interaction 6. Designing Digital Media Literacies for Social Cohesion 7. Extended Reality’s Critical Interfaces and Applications 8. Indigenous Narratives and the Dynamics of Medialogy. Conclusion: Media, Humanity, and Non-human Others in a Post-Digital Future
Biography
Toija Cinque is an associate professor in communications (digital media) whose research explores the challenges and opportunities of digital life. Their work examines the media developments of digitisation, datafication, and platformisation, focusing on the socio-cultural and environmental implications of data-driven and algorithmically steered infrastructures and interfaces. Cinque co-produced Memories That Make Us: Stories of post World War 2 Italian Migration to Australia, a feature documentary that won Best Ethnographic Film in the New York International Film Awards and was an official selection at the Asti International Film Festival, Italy; and Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival, Italy. Cinque’s works include Changing Media Landscapes: Visual Networking (2015); The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power (co-edited, 2023); Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision (co-edited, 2022); Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life (co-written, 2015); and Communication, New Media and Everyday Life (co-written, 2012).
