Dance Media Overview

Principles

Definition

Dance media is an interdisciplinary academic field investigating the complex relationships between dance and various media forms. This area of study examines how technological and mediated contexts influence the creation, performance, documentation, dissemination, and reception of dance, analyzing their impact on artistic practice and cultural understanding.

Ontological type

Core Theoretical Frameworks

Production Practices

Historical Development

Key developments

Key Figures

Resource-Management Media era

Icek Ajzen [1] was a central figure in the Resource-Management Media era, with affiliations at the University of Pittsburgh [2] and the University of Massachusetts Amherst [3] during this period. His key contribution, articulated in the 2002 paper Perceived Behavioral Control, Self-Efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior [4], lies in refining this framework by integrating self-efficacy and controllability to predict coping-related behaviors. This integration advanced resource-based explanations of how beliefs about control and efficacy influence resource mobilization in the face of stress, informing the design of media measurements of coping and agency. By enriching cross-disciplinary measurement strategies with constructs from social cognition, Ajzen's work supported evidence-based benchmarks for interpreting resilience narratives in this era.

Group Dance Neuroscience era

Kristopher J. Preacher [1] is a scholar whose affiliations during this era include Vanderbilt University [2] and the University of Kansas [3]. His key contribution, as documented in the 2011 paper Alternative Methods for Assessing Mediation in Multilevel Data: The Advantages of Multilevel SEM [4], was to advance the use of multilevel SEM for assessing mediation in nested data, enabling more accurate tests of mediating pathways in ecologically valid group designs. For Preacher [1], these methods enabled researchers to model mediated processes across groups and to probe how architectural features of group data influence mediation. Overall, Kristopher J. Preacher's [1] work in multilevel mediation analysis advanced the analytical toolkit of this era, supporting a deeper understanding of how synchronization-related social bonding might emerge from mediated pathways.

Digital Dance Ecology era

Marko Sarstedt [1] is a scholar whose activities in this era span Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München [3] and University of Newcastle Australia [4]. His key contributions center on clarifying the use of PLS-SEM for mediation analyses, as demonstrated in the paper Beyond a tandem analysis of SEM and PROCESS: Use of PLS-SEM for mediation analyses! [6], which enabled more rigorous mediation testing in digital dance ecology data. Christian M. Ringle [2] is a leading figure associated with Universität Hamburg [5], shaping methodological practice in this era. His contributions include co-developing and promoting PLS-SEM for mediation analyses, as reflected in the same influential paper [6], a milestone for testing mediated effects in distributed online dance practices.