Decolonial Media Studies
Chapter
Author(s) / editor(s):
Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Year: 2025
Abstract:
This chapter considers digital cultures from the perspective of decolonial media studies, a version of materialist media studies reconceptualized in light of the critique of modernity/coloniality developed by Aníbal Quijano and others. A materialist approach to media studies understands media as infrastructures of existence—the milieus within which both civilizations and human subjects are formed. The concept of coloniality and the decolonial turn in theory focuses on the continuing force, in the present, of forms of power and knowledge imposed during the European colonization of the rest of the world that began 500 years ago. Synthesizing these theoretical traditions, decolonial media studies highlights the role of media and communication infrastructures in the production of colonial power and the coloniality of knowledge. Decolonial work in media studies requires two moves: first, a critical examination of the colonial logics shaping the media conditions of knowledge production and power, including our own media histories and theories; and, second, interventions to build alternative media environments and social relations that can produce pluriversal forms of knowledge and anti-colonial forms of community and subjectivity
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111316857-011
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