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With the concept materiality of media, I refer to the social relationship between media and people. To me, media materiality is not limited to physical entities such as media infrastructures; it also encompasses images or visuals. At the same time, by materiality, I do not mean that entities such as media determine human culture; instead, both are constitutive and interactive with each other within socioeconomic and political spaces.
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Rahman, H. (2020). The Political Economy, Materiality and the Visceral Experience of Cable Television. In: Consuming Cultural Hegemony. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31707-2_4
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