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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... Perspectives Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, Biomedical Platforms: Reproducing the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine Eda Kranakis, Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design ...
... exchanges have emerged. Theoretical perspectives originating in STS, particularly the social shaping of technology and actor network theory, have been taken 4 Tarleton Gillespie, PabloJ. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot.
... perspective “seeks to create new opportunities for reimagining established approaches and for conceiving new modes ... perspectives into one. Those who can successfully navigate the networks using a technical expertise that permits them ...
... technologies seem to settle into some comfortable frame of understanding. But this narrative arc is a matter of perspective. In contrast to stabilization processes, what 12 Tarleton Gillespie, PabloJ. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot.
... perspective. In contrast to stabilization processes, what may be remarkable about technology as a social achievement, and of media technologies in particular, is that they must be maintained, that their contested meanings persist and ...
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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 |