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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... Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century Stuart S. Blume, Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine PabloJ. Boczkowski, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory ...
... problems probed in the essays to other veins of thought. We asked a great deal of the participants in this volume, and we are deeply grateful not only for what they delivered but also for the willingness and good spirits they offered ...
... problems, and find common threads in scholarship on media technologies, we have crafted two sets of essays and commentaries that we believe illuminate some useful paths forward. The first addresses materiality and the mediation that ...
... problem for media studies. Their emphasis on infrastructure, practices, and users echoes Lievrouw's call for mediation as the mechanism that brings these disparate elements together. By looking at these three elements, and the ties that ...
... problem in the field, a breadth of understanding of the contours of that problem, and a provocative insight to chase. We also hope that this volume affords social researchers of media and technology the impetus to move their own ...
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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 |