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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... claims that media change our world, for “behind all such statements lie some of the most difficult and most unresolved historical and philosophical questions. The questions are not posed by the statements; indeed they are ordinarily ...
... claim that “technology is society made durable,” Lievrouw notes that “the real power of the intellectual connections between STS and media studies will ultimately be theory that moves beyond 'determinisms' to capture the multifaceted ...
... claims made by some of the Internet's founders, particularly in the “man-computer symbiosis” envisioned by J. C. R. Licklider and the “augmented intelligence” pursued by Douglas Engelbart. Here, in their visions for the future of ...
... claim that artifacts might have power, and even agency, comparable to that of human actors is controversial to say the least. On the whole, however, over the last two decades mutual-shaping and co-production approaches have encouraged ...
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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 |