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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... Repair 221 StevenJ. Jackson 12 Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics 241 Sonia Livingstone 13 The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks 251 Fred Turner References 261 Author ...
... repair, collaboration, and science technology policy has been supported by the Ford Foundation, World Bank, Intel Research, the Social Science Research Council, and a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. His work has appeared ...
... repairing them. This is not to say that these are the only two possible directions. The volume reveals both some common assertions and some rich diversity and disagreement. But it does attempt to hold a focus on these two thorny sets of ...
... repair, and regular upkeep of their public legitimacy. Perhaps our stories about media technologies are a bit like our commonplace understanding of glass. Glass, as most understand it, can be shaped because it is malleable when it is ...
... ” If we were to see technologies not as dazzling sparks that shoot off into the lived world, but as fragile achievements constantly needing repair to survive, this might shift our focus from the politics of Introduction 15.
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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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