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 to a more sober attention to the wondrous and persistent attention and care people pay to things they hold quite dear. In their commentaries, chapters 12 and 13 respectively, Sonia Livingstone and Fred Turner each engage in ...
... artifacts and social action are seen as mutually constitutive and determining. Some argued that the stabilization, embeddedness, and sheer material presence of technological artifacts influence and shape human action just as surely as ...
... artifacts and devices themselves considered to have anything like a parallel power to influence human action, society, and culture, or do scholars insist as strongly on the influence or “agency” of material objects and artifacts as that ...
... artifacts that makes them useful and usable for certain purposes under particular conditions. Such a definition foregrounds the materiality of artifacts, of things, not to deny the materiality of practices or social or institutional ...
... artifacts back in, specifically an analytical framework for mediation that examines the reconfiguration of artifacts, the remediation of expression and interaction, and the reformation of patterned social and institutional arrangements ...
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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 |