The word mediathe plural of mediumis from the Latin medius, meaning middle. Since the 19th century, the term has pertained broadly to anything that is a means of transmission or communication; however, media are not simply neutral channels that transmit content created through other means, as the contributors to this issue demonstrate. Authors from a wide array of disciplines explore the middleness of media by considering how its various forms influence our knowledge, shape our understanding, and affect our interpretation of the world around us.
We end with a tribute to the late Richard Weller, co-founder with Tatum Hands of this journal.
Karen MCloskey is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvanias Weitzman School of Design and Editor in Chief of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.
All contributors: Christina Antiporda, Etienne Benson, Holly Jean Buck, Lino Camprubí Bueno, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jess Conard, Vinita Damodaran, Sonja Dümpelmann, Diana Guo, Maria Ivanova, Rami Kanafani, Laura J. Martin, Chad Montrie, Michael Oppenheimer, Marcus Owens, Melissa S. Ragain, Jessica Varner, Andrew Witt. Additional contributors include: Brooke Belisle, Alenda Y. Chang, Dave Colangelo, Daniel Coombes, Rania Ghosn, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Alison Griffiths, Martin Hogue, Bryan Norton, Jussi Parikka, John Durham Peters, Ann Reynolds, David Salomon, Susan Schuppli, Nina Lager Vestberg.
