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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... social media platforms set and enforce rules about disreputable content, and how their approaches for private content governance impact the contours of public discourse online. Steven J. Jackson is an associate professor in the ...
... social theories of new media and information technologies and social/cultural change. Her most recent book, Alternative and Activist New Media (Polity Press, 2011) explores the ways that artists and activists use new media technologies ...
... social researchers1 of media and of technology should, by now, be able to easily enjoy fruitful exchanges of ideas, efforts to engage in substantive conversation have too often been constrained by two impediments. First, in ...
... social currency. When media scholars have turned their attention to the technology involved, they have rarely attended to “the tightly-interwoven relationship between the material and the symbolic” (Boczkowski and Lievrouw 2008, 967) ...
... social shift, or the tool with which passive audiences can finally succumb to or resist the tyranny of mass culture. There have been exceptions to this tendency. Raymond Williams, back in 1974, urged us to look beyond claims that media ...
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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 |