Join us for a discussion withSarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska to celebrate the launch of their book,Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process(MIT Press, 2012).ember and Zylinska will consider the viability of new media studies as a discrete field of enquiry, at a time when media newness seems to have lost some of its shine. They will suggest we should move beyond our fascination with objects -- computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles -- to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation.