Media theory

Marxist Media Theory

In Britain and Europe, neo-Marxist approaches were common amongst media theorists from the late '60s until around the early '80s, and Marxist influences, though less dominant, remain widespread. So it is important to be aware of key Marxist concepts in analysing the mass media. However, there is no single Marxist school of thought, and the jargon often seems impenetrable to the uninitiated. The...

Fundamentals of Media Theory

Media theory is a new branch of discrete applied mathematics originally developed in mid-nineties to deal with stochastic evolution of preference relations in political science and mathematical psychology. The theory focuses on a particular semigroup of ‘messages’ acting as transformations of a set of ‘states’, called a ‘medium’, whose axioms are both strong and natural. The term ‘medium’ stems...

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

Quasi-Static Theory for Uniaxial Chiral Omega Media

The problem of unbounded uniaxial chiral omega media in the presence of both static electric and magnetic point charges is investigated. For this purpose scalar electric and magnetic potentials in these media are introduced. Using these potentials, the corresponding electric and magnetic fields are determined. The similar problem of static electric and magnetic current sources with the goal of ...

Media theory: Representations and examples

In this paper we develop a representational approach to media theory. We construct representations of media by well-graded families of sets and partial cubes and establish the uniqueness of these representations. Two particular examples of media are also described in detail. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.