English Explanatory Dictionary

mediology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of culture, created by Régis Debray in 1979, that pays specific attention to human symbolic activity and to technology, especially as a medium of cultural transmission.
  2. The study of mass media and its influence.
  3. The use of mass media.

Word forms

mediology mediologies

Etymology

Borrowed from French médiologie.

Related words

mediologic mediological mediologist
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