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Media technologies : essays on communication, materiality, and society

"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. This text first addresses the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. It then highlights media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive."--Contratapa
Print Book, English, ©2014
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ©2014
xii, 325 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780262525374, 0262525372
902734503
The Materiality of Mediated Knowledge and Expression. Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project / Leah A. Lievrouw
Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content / Pablo J. Boczkowski and Ignacio Siles
Closer to the Metal / Finn Brunton and Gabriela Coleman
Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression / Geoffrey C. Bowker
"What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!" / Jonathan Sterne
Mediations and Their Others / Lucy Suchman
The People, Practices, and Promises of Information Networks. Making Media Work: Time, Space, Identity, and Labor in the Analysis of Information and Communication Infrastructures / Gregory J. Downey
The Relevance of Algorithms / Tarleton Gillespie
The Fog of Freedom / Christopher Kelty
Rethinking Repair / Steven J. Jackson
Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics / Sonia Livingstone
The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks / Fred Turner