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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... chapters. His projects include a study of the demise of print newspapers as a window into understanding how institutions decay. Geoffrey C. Bowker is professor at the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California ...
... chapter 2, Leah A. Lievrouw examines the causal connections between the symbolic and the material in the making and circulation of media technologies. Calling the scholarship thus far an “unfinished project,” Lievrouw begins by ...
... Chapter 3 by PabloJ. Boczkowski and Ignacio Siles complements Lievrouw's argument by noting that most of the existent scholarship on media technologies has exhibited a silo mentality, focusing on either the material or the content ...
... chapter 6 and Lucy Suchman in chapter 7. Recounting the history of different causal formulations in the study of media technologies, Sterne interrogates the centrality of materiality in the chapters in part I and reminds us that, while ...
... chapter 8 with a call to recognize all manner of “virtual workers” who help make information move in what feels like frictionless ways. We are seduced by the ease of Google search or the speed of our ATM to believe that these are simply ...
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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 |