I live in the space where ideas meet movements, where media theory bends toward media competence, and where media research unfolds into media design and art. In recent years, my work has gravitated toward Science Communication and processes of knowledge communication.
Working in Laboratories and Technical Centres: The first-semester Engineering for Sustainability, B.Sc. students toured the Faculty of Technology and Bionics’ Centres of Knowledge.
Scientific Storytelling
The Art of Communicating Science
Open Science Talk Training for PhD Scholars & Early-Career Researchers
What are media?
How do we define the concept of media?
In common discourse the concept of media is usually defined positive–e.g. media as a particular technology or means/channels of communication. In some media discourses a negative concept of media is proposed – e.g. media as complex sets of medial relations or mediation processes.
The definition of media is in course of transformation in history and among different cultures. This conceptual shift, from past to the present, can be traced in religious/philosophical contexts (media in relation to truth or divinity), the linguistic turn (media as language), a social turn (media as social institution), a technological turn (media as technology and technique), a communication turn (media as cultural meaning) and a biological turn (media as organism).
The practices of media has been evolved throughout the history. It can be divided broadly into three areas: media forms, media design and media art.
Media format shaped throughout the history around certain technique of storage, transmission, and media culture.
Media practices are consciously (re)designed at various levels for/by/with ‘users.’ For instance, the software and application design are targeting professionals, while web design and game design considering the media market and media culture. Design of digital advertising (both commercial or political) across social media are similarly sensitive to the information generated about the users.
Media art practices are usually a controversial field. Many art historians pose contra-arguments for the concept of media arts. Media are usually viewed as instruments of artistic expressions and they consider contemporary media art in the broader category of contemporary art. From the media studies perspective, there is, however, a scope to argue for the concept of media art. Media art are encompassing a wide-range of practices from exploring artistic aesthetics, to (re)construction of media practices, criticisms of mainstream media, media experiment, media avant-garde movements, expanding the perceptions and consciousness, which bring media culture and media literacy into new fronts.
