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We Find Our Way About: Everyday Media Use and 'Inhabitant Knowledge'

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  • Shaun Moores

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In this article, the author proposes that media uses in everyday living can helpfully be understood as practices of wayfaring. Whereas meaningful relations between media and their audiences or users have typically been conceptualised as matters of representation and interpretation, he focuses on matters of movement and dwelling or of orientation and habitation, opening up the possibility of a non-representational approach for media studies. His starting point is a passing remark in Scannell's phenomenology of radio and television, and a discussion of that remark leads him to a sympathetic yet critical engagement with Ingold's work on wayfaring and inhabitant knowledge. Along the way, consideration is given to Tuan's notes on paths and place-making, and to Merleau-Ponty's writing on incarnate subjectivity and the acquisition of habit.

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  • Shaun Moores, 2015. "We Find Our Way About: Everyday Media Use and 'Inhabitant Knowledge'," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 17-35, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:10:y:2015:i:1:p:17-35
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.819624
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