Traffic
Subtitle: media as infrastructures and cultural practices
By: edited by Marion Naser-Lather, Christoph Neubert
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- 88
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9789004299801; 9789004298774
Subjects: Communication; Mass media and culture; Mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction /  Marion Naser-Lather and Christoph Neubert; title: Theorizing Traffic. Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture / John Durham Peters; title: Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media / Gabriele Schabacher; title: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory /  Jana Mangold; title: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? /   Hartmut Winkler; title: Traffic of Concepts. Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of  Vitality / Grant David Bollmer; title: Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication / Norm Friesen; title: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism /  Richard Cavell; title: Contents. Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions /  Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat; title: Time, Space, and Power. Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther /   Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz; title: Nomads of the Technical Sublime / Peter Krapp; title: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of  Resistance /  Wolfgang Suetzl; title: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel / Wolf-Dieter Ernst.