Scape
Mediascape
Explore in the Atlas →Appadurai's term for both the distribution of the electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate information (newspapers, television, film, digital platforms) and the images of the world these media create. Mediascapes furnish large and complex repertoires of images and narratives from which scripts of imagined lives — and imagined communities — are assembled across the globe.
Sign Knowledge Fantasy
Details
- Flow
- Mediascape
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Observation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Digital model
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Arjun Appadurai proposed
- Imagined Communities circulates through
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
- Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 1990.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Mediascape." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/scape/mediascape/. Accessed July 17, 2026.