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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... artifacts and practices, but troubled by the way the sociotechnical was so often bracketed, reified, or entirely ... artifact had been going on in sociology, history, anthropology, and philosophy of technology, particularly under the ...
... [artifacts, practices, and social arrangements] of communication technology infrastructure and three corresponding processes or modes of change [reconfiguration, remediation, and reformation, respectively],” affords an explanatory stance ...
... artifact of sorts, has had for knowledge practices in the contemporary context. By historicizing how this dominance came to be and remaining mindful of the manifold options ahead of us, Bowker calls for imagining alternative forms of ...
... artifacts and within the networks are people attempting to construct, maintain, and ultimately disassemble material things. The way they make, remake, and unmake media technologies has lasting consequences for the artifacts and for ...
... artifacts with politics, but also as new knowledge logics that are displacing more editorial modes of information legitimation. This is vital in the face of our embrace of these tools as sites for public discourse, the seductive calls ...
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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 |