Media

Abstract

Phenomenology has occupied a significant though peripheral place in the development of media and communication studies in the last century. Such studies have centered on technology. Consequently phenomenology has only recently contributed insights into media art and aesthetics as such. Historically, its importance in media studies and aesthetics has been indirect, providing fundamental grounding in epistemology and ontology. And while interest in issues current in contemporary media studies dates back to the first quarter of the twentieth century, this interest was seen as phenomenological investigation and not explicitly as media study as it is understood today.