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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... practices and environments. Most prominent among this work, which many of the contributors to this volume see as formative intellectual predicates for their own scholarship, are the “social informatics” approach championed by Rob Kling ...
... practices of social meaning. They have brought the intellectual tensions between structure and agency, control and resistance, and change and stasis—so fundamental to social and cultural theory of the last century—to the fluid ...
... practices and social arrangements that should guide our analytic focus (3). Tools designed to examine “mass media” or “mass society” will no longer suffice; the “multiple, shifting configurations” (5) of the network provide a more ...
... practices and meanings that maintain the sociomaterial formations that are media technologies by animating, building, translating, and repairing them. This is not to say that these are the only two possible directions. The volume ...
... 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 that ...
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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 |