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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... . This has made it difficult to examine media not merely as messages that affect minds, but as social relations by other means, an engagement of people through information and through things, that happens to 1 Introduction.
... relation to these concepts. These impromptu visualizations became another opportunity for discussion of what the entire collection had in common. We continued and expanded these discussions in a lively and well-attended roundtable at ...
... relations as well as of physical things” (MacKenzie and Wajcman 1999, xv). This linking of the social and the material may be one of the most important distinctions between social studies of technology and social studies of science ...
... relations, with the ability to exert multiplex influence on other relationships and nodes in the network. The actor-network perspective resists the “purification” of issues or practices into singular categories like nature, science ...
... relations, and material objects and artifacts. Co-production encourages a move away from strong social determinism, and the assumption that “social controversies around science are 'really' all about politics or that complex areas 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 |
Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society Tarleton Gillespie,Pablo J. Boczkowski,Kirsten A. Foot Sin vista previa disponible - 2014 |