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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... Structures of Scientific Collaboration Rebecca Slayton, Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949– 2011 Chikako Takeshita, The Global Politics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's ...
... structure and agency, control and resistance, and change and stasis—so fundamental to social and cultural theory of the last century—to the fluid technological landscape of this one. Leaders from this community, many now mid-career ...
... structure, small group interaction, and individual “users.”1 However, by the late 1980s a different perspective on media and ICTs had begun to reverse this familiar causal logic in studies of communication technology (Boczkowski and ...
... structures, and organizational bureaucracy” (Hughes 1994, 108). Successful engineers like Thomas Edison are “heterogeneous,” working not only with “inanimate physical materials, but on and through people, texts, devices, city councils ...
... structure,” but is actually instantiated and observable in the physical forms of social practices, relations, and material objects and artifacts. Co-production encourages a move away from strong social determinism, and the assumption ...
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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 |