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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... institutions decay. Geoffrey C. Bowker is professor at the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, where he directs the Evoke Laboratory (http://evoke.ics.uci.edu). Recent positions include ...
... institutional efforts. They are not seen as emissaries of revolution or harbingers of imminent disaster, but as constructs richly etched with the politics, presumptions, and worldviews of their designers. They are not necessarily ...
... institution to institution, or from one semantic context to another. The flow of information is in fact a product of human labor, pushed forward by the hands of these invisible workers. An analysis of information networks that overlooks ...
... institutions, to aggregate us under the term “sociology” would exclude too many people. At the same time, those of ... institutional” and “as opposed to technical” every time, we used the shorthand term “social research” to encompass ...
... institutional apparatuses.” —Paulo Carpignano, “The Shape of the Sphere” (1999), 178 It is fair to say that the specter of technological determinism no longer haunts the study of communication technologies, despite being an enduring ...
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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 |