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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... complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In much of contemporary scholarship, media technologies are no longer treated as things that simply happen to society, but rather as the product of distinct human and institutional efforts. They are not ...
... complex, multidimensional idea, and open to a variety of interpretations, emphases, and disciplinary assumptions. It has been invoked to describe phenomena as diverse as the economic and institutional power of media industries and ...
... complex that it is no longer amenable to social control” (Wyatt 2008, 175). As Sally Wyatt (2008) has noted, Winner's perspective has propelled a series of “skirmishes” within STS. Constructivist critics (see Joerges 1999) charge that ...
... complex, networked relationships. “Cultures of technology” grow up around certain technological systems and create momentum, “the propensity of technologies to develop along previously defined trajectories unless and until deflected by ...
... complex, dynamic systems such as energy, military technology, computing, and telecommunications (see, for example, Galambos 1988; MacKenzie 1991; Mayntz and Schneider 1988; Schneider 1991). To recap, we might say that in Hughes's view ...
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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 |