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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... Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences Louis L. Bucciarelli, Designing Engineers Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes, and Yannick Barthe, Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy H. M. Collins, Artificial ...
... Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (MIT Press, 1999); his most recent book is Memory Practices in the Sciences: 1830–1990 (MIT Press, 2006). Finn Brunton is an assistant professor of information in the Department of Media ...
... things that simply happen to society, but rather as the product of distinct human and institutional efforts. They are not seen as emissaries of revolution or harbingers of imminent disaster, but as constructs richly etched with the ...
... things, that happens to use words, sounds, and images as 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 ...
... thing in its own right. Both of these analyses, though focused on television, proved influential for scholars of the digital technologies to follow. And all along, cultural historians were revealing communication technologies as the ...
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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 |