Media & Neuroactivity Research
In Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Freidrich Kittler's exploration of media discourse analysis is greatly motivated with the theory that there needs to be a necessary pursuit toward the development of the science of media (Medienwissenschaft), pressing at the intrinsic obligations of a hard science, to arrive at the potential of investigative efforts into its own inherent natures and behaviors. Kittler holds that if this call-to-duty is not attained by contemporary scholars of media in a way more directly involved than cultural practitioners who "know higher mathematics only from hearsay," what will be carried out, essentially, is nothing more than an exaggeration continuum of the mere history of media.
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I am currently working as the Principal Media Theorist and Test Coordinator with a small group of academic, technical, and research professionals in the U.S. and Canada on studying the neurophysiological effects of media use and human cognition. To date, the research is being done using Electroencephalography (EEG) to examin brain waves in subjects during their use of various digital screen and analog codex media.
This site will be populated with progress updates and papers concerning the individual tests that are performed.
RESULTS FILE REPOSITORY
Chicago - December 2009