Media Technologies - Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (Paperback)

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 Pablo 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

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Inside Technology
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Tarleton Gillespie (Principal Research at Microsoft Research, New England) • Pablo J. Boczkowski (Professor and Director) • Kirsten A. Foot (Associate Professor)
Contributors:	Tarleton Gillespie (Principal Research at Microsoft Research, New England) • Pablo J. Boczkowski (Professor and Director) • Kirsten A. Foot (Associate Professor) • Leah A. Lievrouw (Professor) • Ignacio Siles (Ph.D. candidate) • Finn Brunton (Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication) • Gabriella Coleman (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-52537-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Communications engineering / telecommunications > General
LSN:	0-262-52537-2
Barcode:	9780262525374

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