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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... objects and as the residue of societal ambitions. Still, though social researchers1 of media and of technology should, by now, be able to easily enjoy fruitful exchanges of ideas, efforts to engage in substantive conversation have too ...
... 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 systemically, and explicate the social, material, and temporal ...
... objects of discussion between the contributor and one of the editors. The contributors then produced threethousand-word sketches of their essays, which also were circulated, in anticipation of an intensive day-long workshop (preceded by ...
... object, is a gesture vital to the examination of new media technologies as a part of public life. Turner considers whether the classic media studies concerns about representations, their commercial aims, and the worldviews they deliver ...
... objects (Star and Griesemer 1989), and in particular, the social construction of technology (SCOT) approach to the analysis of technology and 2 Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project.
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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 |
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society Tarleton Gillespie,Pablo J. Boczkowski,Kirsten A. Foot Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |