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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... Infrastructures 141 GregoryJ. Downey 9 The Relevance of Algorithms 167 Tarleton Gillespie 10 The Fog of Freedom 195 Christopher M. Kelty 11 Rethinking Repair 221 StevenJ. Jackson 12 Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as ...
... infrastructures by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (1999), Steve Woolgar's (1991, 2002) “configured user” and “virtual society” projects, the use of activity theory by Bonnie Nardi and others (Nardi 1996; Kaptelinin and Nardi 2006) ...
... infrastructure. Where the mass communication tradition has spent decades struggling with and, more recently, unpacking the linear relationship among production, text, and audience (i.e., production makes texts which have effects or ...
... infrastructures, international corporate consortia, and whole technical systems” (11). Finally, some social researchers of media and technology argue that it is not sufficient to merely acknowledge complexity, that scholarship has an ...
... infrastructure and three corresponding processes or modes of change [reconfiguration, remediation, and reformation, respectively],” affords an explanatory stance that better balances the material and the symbolic. In a formulation that ...
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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 |