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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... 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 place of algorithms in the public information ...
... chapter 11, that despite this “productivist bias,” it may be just as important to unearth what it is that keeps a technology going, who makes its continued use possible, how it changes over many iterations, and how it ends. To look, as ...
... chapters 12 and 13 respectively, Sonia Livingstone and Fred Turner each engage in creative reflection, making intriguingly different arguments about what the essays in part II have in common and about the emerging scholarship around ...
... chapter. Sonia Livingstone and I have proposed a definition of new media that unites communication artifacts, practices, and social arrangements and formations as inseparable and mutually determining (Lievrouw and Livingstone 2006) ...
... chapter, most technology scholarship in the communication field, informed by classic streams of media research, continues to follow a broadly constructivist, culturalist line, privileging the technologies' social and cultural meanings ...
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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 |