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The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new
approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a
bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of
this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have
begun to emerge across the discipline in the form of innovative,
interdisciplinary interventions in the audience research agenda.
Contributions to this volume seek to further this process though
innovative, audience-oriented perspectives that firmly anchor media
engagement within the diversity of contexts and purposes to which
people incorporate media in their daily lives, in ways often
unanticipated by industries and professionals.
This volume focuses on processes and means to revitalise the
academic field of audience research. Ultimately, the revitalisation
of audience studies not only means developing new approaches and
methods; it also requires a 'Kuhnian discussion', in the sense of
discussing the need for the introduction of new paradigms or
conceptual developments into the field of audience research. This
requires that researchers transcend established boundaries in the
field, and entails both the need to cross disciplines (e.g.,
between the social sciences tradition and the critical/cultural
tradition, or the computational tradition) and the need to bridge
long-established boundaries in the field (e.g. between 'old media'
and 'new media'; between mass communication and group
communication; between content/production and audience/reception).
Contributors therefore aim to facilitate this process of boundary
crossing through a series of interdisciplinary debates across the
full range of audience consumption and reception studies.
We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a
new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only
a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of
who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of
this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable
culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become
pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our
understanding of what living a good life would entail.
"Sustainability," however, is a contested word, and it carries with
it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims
that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power
relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set
this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and
harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful
environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies,
particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of
energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind
and water, earth and forest. The book is divided into 4 sections:
(1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and
Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability
and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section
sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking
sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in
contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of
our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the
essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular
technologies and questions of technological design in the light of
our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by
drawing some more general implications for ethics from the
intersection of the foregoing themes.
We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a
new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only
a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of
who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of
this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable
culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become
pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our
understanding of what living a good life would entail.
"Sustainability," however, is a contested word, and it carries with
it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims
that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power
relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set
this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and
harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful
environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies,
particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of
energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind
and water, earth and forest. The book is divided into 4 sections:
(1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and
Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability
and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section
sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking
sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in
contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of
our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the
essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular
technologies and questions of technological design in the light of
our environmental crisis. The forth section closes the book by
drawing some more general implications for ethics from the
intersection of the foregoing themes.
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