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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... understanding how institutions decay. Geoffrey C. Bowker is professor at the School of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, where he directs the Evoke Laboratory (http://evoke.ics.uci.edu). Recent ...
... understanding the mediation of cognition, conversation, and group dynamics (see Kalman et al. 2006; Kraut et al. 1998; Parks and Floyd 1996; Walther 2011), it has been more interested in using the technology as a convenient opportunity ...
... understanding of technology as one of the following: the intervening variable that explains a measurable change, the ... understandings were required. In response, some communication and media scholars—eager to get a handle on these new ...
... understandings of technology. To counter these assumptions, STS scholars took as their central concern the ways that materiality, practice, and politics are necessarily entangled. In contrast to most work in communication and media ...
... understanding of traditional media with a heuristic that has predictable components, but does not presume beforehand how those components are related in any given context: We do not specify a priori any set relationship among the three ...
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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 |