Media technologies : essays on communication, materiality, and society /
Foot, Kirsten A,editor of compilation.
Boczkowski, Pablo J,editor of compilation.
Gillespie, Tarleton,editor of compilation.
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.ContributorsPablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner.
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Contents; About the Contributors; Editors' Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I The Materiality of Mediated Knowledge and Expression; 2 Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project; 3 Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content; 4 Closer to the Metal; 5 Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression; 6 "What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!"; 7 Mediations and Their Others
Part II The People, Practices, and Promises of Information Networks8 Making Media Work: Time, Space, Identity, and Labor in the Analysis of Information and Communication Infrastructures; 9 The Relevance of Algorithms; 10 The Fog of Freedom; 11 Rethinking Repair; 12 Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics; 13 The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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.ContributorsPablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner.
Digital media.
Communication and technology.
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