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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... interest among communication scholars, especially in the Anglophone world, in emerging fields like media archeology (Huhtamo 1997; Parikka 2012) and media archives (Spigel 2010); the “new materialisms” of the digital humanities (Coole ...
... is addressed to readers with interests in both STS and communication and media studies. Key theoretical approaches from both fields are reviewed, including (from STS) autonomous technology, technological momentum, actor 24 Leah A. Lievrouw.
... interests, and politics, on the one side, and technology, artefacts, and machines, on the other” (Pinch 1996, 34). Ultimately, they argue, there is no fixed or Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies 27.
... interests, and for neglecting entrenched technologies' concrete, enduring effects (Winner 2001). The proper study of technology, he says, requires a rigorously critical perspective and normative commitments that enable analysts to ...
... interests or to gratify certain needs (Ang 1990; Morley 1993; Livingstone 2004). Broadly speaking, media effects research explores the ways that media may influence or even determine cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral change; which ...
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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 |