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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... important advances in understanding the mediation of cognition, conversation, and group dynamics (see Kalman et al. 2006; Kraut et al. 1998; Parks and Floyd 1996; Walther 2011), it has been more interested in using the technology as a ...
... important, serious, historic, substantial—particularly those involved in industry and engineering, knowledge production, the military, and transportation. There has been no STS-based analysis of the Internet or the World Wide Web on par ...
... important empirical contributions in this arena, and who offered conceptual tools and insights that transcend their respective empirical cases and illuminate potential paths forward in the study of media technologies. Though we tried to ...
... important for two reasons: first, each author enjoyed the benefit of several sets of talented eyes during the writing process; second, seeing the other three essays helped contributors to sharpen their own. All of the drafts and the ...
... important, of what might be when we think about the future of our own modes of knowledge expression. Bowker focuses on the embodiment and circulation of (scientific) knowledge, and the implications for how this knowledge is generated ...
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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 |