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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... Users Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, editors, How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology Shobita Parthasarathy, Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care ...
... users. They are not gleaming icons of the new, but have specific historical trajectories as individual objects and as the residue of societal ambitions. Still, though social researchers1 of media and of technology should, by now, be ...
... users echoes Lievrouw's call for mediation as the mechanism that brings these disparate elements together. By looking at these three elements, and the ties that bind them, Brunton and Coleman encounter “the multiple, sometimes ...
... users. Gregory J. Downey begins chapter 8 with a call to recognize all manner of “virtual workers” who help make information move in what feels like frictionless ways. We are seduced by the ease of Google search or the speed of our ATM ...
... users for whom the information is designed. In chapter 9 Tarleton Gillespie focuses on a more contemporary moment of disappearance but raises a complementary set of questions to Downey's analysis. He calls for sustained attention to 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 |