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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... concern the ways that materiality, practice, and politics are necessarily entangled. In contrast to most work in communication and media studies, STS scholars debated the ramifications of the material without oversimplifying it, and ...
... concern that build from or speak to theorizing media technologies. However, we did not want to enlist such accomplished scholars and then ask them to labor alone to produce essays that would merely share adjacent pages. One of the ...
... concern of scholarship about media technologies. The four essays in part I offer different, yet related ways to account for those linkages at the intersection of communication and media studies and STS. In chapter 2, Leah A. Lievrouw ...
... concerns that have animated the study of media more broadly. Livingstone reminds us that thinking about users and audiences remains critical to understanding our contemporary media environment. Each of the essays, she argues, is concerned ...
... concerns that the channels themselves might have some inherent power to influence audiences. Later, studies of “new” information and communication technologies (ICTs) and information society in the 1970s and 80s investigated 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 |