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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... Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies Paul Rosen, Framing Production: Technology, Culture, and Change in the British Bicycle Industry Richard Rottenburg, Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid ...
... material culture that incorporate into and sometimes press upon the lived practices of their users. They are not gleaming icons of the new, but have specific historical trajectories as individual objects and as the residue of societal ...
... material and the symbolic” (Boczkowski and Lievrouw 2008, 967). Instead, explicitly or by omission, they have tended to cling to the assertion that the technology is neutral with respect to the communication being undertaken—or have ...
... material technology over the symbolic content. And although both stakeholders and commenters too often wrapped these technologies in breathless hyperbole, their overstated proclamations themselves may have helped make it so apparent ...
... material without oversimplifying it, and posited these sociotechnical ensembles as situated historically and in specific social and political contexts. However—and here we reach the second impediment that has hindered efforts to engage ...
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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 |