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François Jost, Comprendre la télévision et ses programmes (2009 [2005]).

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As can be seen in the following passage (pp. 21-22), which makes reference to our article “A Medium Is Always Born Twice,” trans. Timothy Barnard (Early Popular Visual Culture 9 [2005]): 3-15.

This example [of the webcam] demonstrates that a technological invention becomes a medium only when it is appropriated by more or less specific uses of it, themselves susceptible to being recuperated by an institution which transforms them into cultural products (this schema is not far removed from that for the cinema developed by A. Gaudreault and P. Marion, who believe that “the history of early cinema leads us, successively, from the appearance of a technological process – that of the apparatus that records moving images – to the emergence of ‘moving pictures,’ or the establishment of diverse procedures which endow the process with the status of an apparatus, to the constitution of an established medium” [Gaudreault and Marion, 2005, p. 5]).

23

Doron Galili, “Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television and the Modern Mediascape 1878–1939,” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2011).

24

Christophe Gauthier, “Le devenir média du Web et le webfilm,” in Cinéma et audiovisuel se réfléchissent: Réflexivité, migrations, intermédialité, ed. François Amy de la Bretèque et al. (2012), 229–39.

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James Lastra, “What Cinema Is (for the Moment . . .),” paper presented at the conference “Impact of Technological Innovations on the Theory
and Historiography of Cinema,” Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, November 2011. Unpublished, quoted with the author’s permission. Forthcoming in Du Média au postmédia: Continuités, ruptures [From media to post-media: Continuities and ruptures], ed. Nicolas Dulac and André Gaudreault (Lausanne: L’Âge d’Homme).

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Gyula Maksa, “Mediativitás, médiumidentitás, ‘képregény’” [Media identity, mediativity and the graphic novel]. PhD diss., University of Debrecen, 2008.

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A summary of this dissertation is accessible online: https://dea.lib.unideb.hu/dea/handle/2437/4045.

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This blog can be consulted online.

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The quotation is taken from an article posted online on 12 February 2012 and which was accessible at the following address: http://julien.lecomte.over-blog.com/article-nouveaux-medias-de-la-passivite-de-la-masse-a-l-interactivite-revolution-100034519.html, but which has since been removed. It is possible to download a PDF of a reproduction of the complete article below.

Julien Lecomte, “Nouveaux médias: de la passivité à l’interactivité?”
Nouveaux-médias-_-de-la-passivité-à-linteractivité_-Philosophie-médias-et-société-_-par-Julien-Lecomte.pdf

See also Julien Lecomte, Médias: influence, pouvoir et fiabilité (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012).

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This enables him to take up, on the same site, the debate around the always problematic use of the term revolution.

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The text reads as follows:

On this topic, we should beware of confusing trends with revolutions. Thus many “theorists,” each more rigorous than the last, have developed marketing prescriptions to use on social media, presenting them as reflections of the way of life that has taken hold. And yet Facebook did not exist ten years ago. And who knows if it will exist ten years from now (Facebook, terminus en 2024?)? I’m not saying it will disappear, but it will undoubtedly no longer be completely like what it is today. The Internet has already seen many mutations: e-mail, chatrooms, IRC, forums, BBS, msn/live messenger, blogs, wikis and now the social media. While these latter are certainly an integral part of social life, they are not sufficient to define it entirely.

The quotation is taken from an article posted online on 12 February 2012 and which was accessible at the following address: http://julien.lecomte.over-blog.com/article-nouveaux-medias-de-la-passivite-de-la-masse-a-l-interactivite-revolution-100034519.html, but which has since been removed. It is possible to download a PDF of a reproduction of the complete article below.

JULIEN LECOMTE, « NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS : DE LA PASSIVITÉ À L’INTERACTIVITÉ? »
Nouveaux-médias-_-de-la-passivité-à-linteractivité_-Philosophie-médias-et-société-_-par-Julien-Lecomte.pdf

See also Julien Lecomte, Médias: influence, pouvoir et fiabilité (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012).

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Lastra, “What Cinema Is.”

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We might also legitimately ask ourselves, as Grégoire Gaudreault of the Université de Montréal suggests, whether that almost instantaneous photographic device, the Polaroid camera, could not be seen as an ancestor of what today is called the smart phone, given that taking photographs is undoubtedly one of the device’s most popular functions.

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A multifunction gadget with ever-increasing applications.

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A device that can be used to send e-mails, receive them, surf the Internet, take notes, record sound, take photos, listen to music, audioview films, use a GPS, find the address of a business and its opening hours, compare prices, find digital discount coupons, buy things and, at the same time, make calls, and which we persist, nevertheless, in calling a . . . telephone!

32

Galili, “Seeing by Electricity,” 143.

33

See in particular André Leroi-Gourhan, Le geste et la parole, vol. 1, Technique et langage (1964). See also Jean Lohisse, Les systèmes de communication: Approche socio-anthropologique (1998).

34

Charles Acland, “Introduction: Residual Media,” in Residual Media, ed. Charles Acland (2007), xii–xxviii.

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In our paper presented at the conference “The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference” (Newcastle University, Newcastle, Great Britain, July 2011) entitled “Le modèle de la ‘double naissance’ à l’aune du numérique. Ou: Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur ‘tout ce qui est advenu aux images depuis l’arrivée de l’ordinateur et du téléphone’ [Dubois et alii] et que vous n’avez jamais osé demander . . .” See André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion, “Measuring the ‘Double Birth’ Model against the Digital Age,” Early Popular Visual Culture 11, no. 2 (2013): 158–77.

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