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This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to
the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of
media - including essays on the 19th century press, early sound
media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet - the
book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of
audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present.
Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also
explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of
participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to
the asymmetries that characterize the distribution of agency in the
relationship between media and users. Scholarly discussions on
participatory media now occur in several fields. This book argues
that all of these discussions are all too often obscured by a
rhetoric of newness, assuming that participatory media is something
unique in history, radical and revolutionary. By challenging the
historiography implicit in this rhetoric, the book also engages in
a discussion of issues of more general relevance to the
multidisciplinary field of media history.
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to
the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of
media - including essays on the 19th century press, early sound
media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet - the
book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of
audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present.
Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also
explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of
participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to
the asymmetries that characterize the distribution of agency in the
relationship between media and users. Scholarly discussions on
participatory media now occur in several fields. This book argues
that all of these discussions are all too often obscured by a
rhetoric of newness, assuming that participatory media is something
unique in history, radical and revolutionary. By challenging the
historiography implicit in this rhetoric, the book also engages in
a discussion of issues of more general relevance to the
multidisciplinary field of media history.
The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as
academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of
modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public
debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as
social beings. The Social Scientific Gaze examines the discursive
formation of academic social science in the historical context of
the 'social question', that is, the protracted and wide-ranging
discussions on the social problems of modernity that were being
debated with increased intensity during the nineteenth century.
Empirically, the study focuses on the Loren Foundation, a combined
private funding agency and early research institute, which was set
up in 1885 to promote the rise of Swedish social science and to
investigate the social question. Comprising an heuristic case, the
close analysis of the Foundation makes it possible not only to
reconstruct its basic ideas and practices, but also to situate its
activities in broader historical and sociological context. The
Social Scientific Gaze argues that the rise of Swedish social
science may be seen not only as an 'answer' to the social
'question', but also as one attempt alongside others - including
contemporary social literature, the philantropic reform movement,
and the introduction of modern social policy - to conceptualize,
mobilize and regulate the social sphere. In this process it is
furthermore shown how an ambigious yet distinct 'social scientific
gaze' was discursively articulated.
The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as
academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of
modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public
debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as
social beings. The Social Scientific Gaze examines the discursive
formation of academic social science in the historical context of
the 'social question', that is, the protracted and wide-ranging
discussions on the social problems of modernity that were being
debated with increased intensity during the nineteenth century.
Empirically, the study focuses on the Loren Foundation, a combined
private funding agency and early research institute, which was set
up in 1885 to promote the rise of Swedish social science and to
investigate the social question. Comprising an heuristic case, the
close analysis of the Foundation makes it possible not only to
reconstruct its basic ideas and practices, but also to situate its
activities in broader historical and sociological context. The
Social Scientific Gaze argues that the rise of Swedish social
science may be seen not only as an 'answer' to the social
'question', but also as one attempt alongside others - including
contemporary social literature, the philantropic reform movement,
and the introduction of modern social policy - to conceptualize,
mobilize and regulate the social sphere. In this process it is
furthermore shown how an ambigious yet distinct 'social scientific
gaze' was discursively articulated.
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