Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and SocietyTarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Kirsten A. Foot MIT Press, 2014 M01 17 - 344 páginas Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive. Contributors |
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... argue that it is not sufficient to merely acknowledge complexity, that scholarship has an obligation to work toward conceptual frameworks that enable more robust analyses. For example, Boczkowski and Lievrouw (2008) propose not just to ...
... Arguing that this silo mentality has presented significant limitations in accounting for the interpenetration of ... argue that this perspective “seeks to create new opportunities for reimagining established approaches and for conceiving ...
... argues for unpacking these systems, not just as artifacts with politics, but also as new knowledge logics that are displacing more editorial modes of information legitimation. This is vital in the face of our embrace of these tools as ...
... argues here, in chapter 11, that despite this “productivist bias,” it may be just as important to unearth what it is that keeps a technology going, who makes its continued use possible, how it changes over many iterations, and how it ...
... argues, is concerned about users, but implicitly frame them in different ways. Calling out these assumptions, and putting users politically front and center, even if they are not the analytical object, is a gesture vital to the ...
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Part II The People Practices and Promises of Information Networks | 139 |
References | 261 |
Author Index | 309 |
Subject Index | 319 |
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Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society Tarleton Gillespie,Pablo J. Boczkowski,Kirsten A. Foot Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |