Search Results - John Corner

This short commentary looks at aspects of the debate about the term ‘mediatization’, paying particular attention to recent, cross-referring exchanges both in support of the concept and critical of it. In the context of its widespread use, it suggests that continuing questions need to be asked about...

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This note examines the ways in which statistics have been an important and controversial aspect of public information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. The profile has varied internationally but some schematic observations about lines of flow, the distinctive role played by figures and the patterns...

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This note reviews, through examples, how narrative remains a powerful and changing element in public communication, refreshed not only by shifts in technologies and modes but also by the tonalities and affective character of contemporary political exchange.

In this note of commentary, I want briefly to reflect on how questions concerning aesthetics variously figure, lie just below the surface or are simply ignored across the increasingly diverse academic approaches to investigating media. This is in a situation in which the array of activities and pra...

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