To ask whether something is a ‘valid’ media sensate is not the question, media sensate activity is inherent to that function. It is valid in its creation.
What dialogue is needed when approaching works termed as media sensate experiences are their intent through social and/or art historic references, Only then can a work be experienced. Now one can say that the impulse of emotion are elements of discourse and one would be correct in this. Yet what must be remembered is that emotion is contextualized through sociological processing.

Dialogue of validity