Update: What do we call a medium? (Eng.)
Both in ordinary and in scholarly speech the word medium signifies very different things. We speak of 'the media' as a general container concept of all media or of all professionals working in this field, but we also speak of different media, implying medium specific features or medium ontologies. But what for example do we mean when we speak of 'the medium film' as distinguished from other media, what specific features do make up this medium: the celluloid, the cinema, the studio, Hollywood industry, cameras, framing and montage, screen projection, moving images? Read more… »
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