Introduction: Doing and Being Together

Abstract

How do we act, think, produce, or do research together, and how do we understand this togetherness from a media studies perspective? How can joint motivations be combined to create knowledge that spans the sum of individual intentions? While bringing together various subfields within and cases from media studies, this collection rethinks how scholarly endeavours feature different ways of doing and being together, identifying new and more diverse communicative spaces, challenging dichotomies, and encouraging critical perspectives. Taking a colloquial understanding of doing and being together as a facilitator of encounter among scholars and various other agents, such as civil society organisations, artists, and practitioners, the authors of this edited collection embrace vast connotations of media studies - from actions building connections across research and practice to transdisciplinary methodologies promoting new ways of togetherness through analogue and digital realms. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür and Nazan Haydari; individual chapters, the contributors.