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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... determinism, proclaiming the things themselves as ushering in dramatic change. The turn to digital, networked media technologies has begun to move this literature past this first impediment. But the field of communication and media ...
... determinism and legitimated media technologies as a worthy object of scholarly analysis. They have made the case that the study of media technologies, to be compelling, must contextualize the technology historically, culturally, and ...
... determinism (and beyond an uncritical embrace of social constructionism)—and to begin reclaiming the centrality that understanding media technologies should have in the fields of communication and STS and beyond. Note 1. We have chosen ...
... determinism no longer haunts the study of communication technologies, despite being an enduring theme in media research. Classical mass media studies from the 1920s onward analyzed the “effects” of print, broadcasting, and cinema on ...
... determinism to social constructivism was a pivotal development in communication and media research in the 1990s; by the 2000s a strong form of social/cultural determinism had “become the dominant perspective in new media studies ...
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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 |