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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... questions. The questions are not posed by the statements; indeed they are ordinarily masked by them” (9). Roger Silverstone (1994) later noted the “double articulation” of communication technologies as being at once a tool for conveying ...
... questions and pathways, where scholars of media technologies might want to go next, given not only the theoretical exchange now occurring but also what the shifting media and information landscape now makes possible and, arguably ...
... question the persistence of causal accounts in social constructionist views. She calls for a renewed emphasis on “mediation” as a way to overcome the limitations tied to the lingering of social constructivism. Mediation, 10 Tarleton ...
... questions to Downey's analysis. He calls for sustained attention to the place of algorithms in the public information landscape. These tools, from search engines to recommendation systems to the organization of social networking sites ...
... questions going forward. We hope that readers of this volume exploring issues around media technologies can light upon one of these chapters, and find in it a careful consideration of a thorny problem in the field, a breadth of ...
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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 |