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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... Critical political economists, who cut their teeth on the highly concentrated media industries, posited the nascent digital industry as simply continuing or exacerbating this oligopolistic control (Bagdikian 2004; McChesney 2004). Media ...
... critical theory of technology. Over the course of the last decade, this ideational meeting point, between communication and media studies on the one hand and science and technology studies on the other, is where fruitful intellectual ...
... critical information studies (Dourish 2004; Edwards 1996). This volume builds on and extends facets of the intellectual project of each of these works. But what should come next? There have been some suggestions as to how to move ...
... critical to understanding our contemporary media environment. Each of the essays, she argues, is concerned about users, but implicitly frame them in different ways. Calling out these assumptions, and putting users politically front and ...
... critical and cultural media studies and its socialized, culture-driven approach to media analysis, including a central focus on media institutions and power (see the section to follow on Critical/Cultural Media Studies). Following 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 |