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This review of Medium, Messenger, Transmission outlines and introduces the media philosophy of Sybille Krämer. Her argument that communication initiates a relationship with the other as an ethical act is read alongside the work of Emmanuel Levinas, before exploring the impact of our contemporary obligation to be available for communication in working environments that seem not to encourage or instantiate this moral encounter.

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communicative labour media philosophy moral communication

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Review: Sybille Krämer,Medium,Messenger,Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy

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