Nanomídia(s): legitimidade e interdisciplinaridade face ao antropoceno

New media epistemologies are emerging and might be considered illegitimate not because of plain rejection or criticism, but because of their alien origins and inter/ transdisciplinary implications. This article tells the story of a nano, tiny world within the world of media studies: the world of the term ‘nanomedia’ and its hyphenated sister ‘nano-media’. It narrates the different uses of this term as an illustration of the way in which disciplinarity determines the level of legitimacy or illegitimacy of an emerging term. We present another possible use of the term nanomedia in the field of media studies, one that is more closely aligned with its scientific origins. The importance and relevance of this proposition is connected to the present challenges we face in the anthropocene.