Media technologies : essays on communication, materiality, and society /

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 med...

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Other Authors: Gillespie, Tarleton (Editor), Boczkowski, Pablo J. (Editor), Foot, Kirsten A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
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ISBN:9780262319461
0262319462
9781461957225
1461957222
0262319470
9780262319478
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Materiality of Mediated Knowledge and Expression. Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project / Leah A. Lievrouw
  • Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content / Pablo J. Boczkowski and Ignacio Siles
  • Closer to the Metal / Finn Brunton and Gabriela Coleman
  • Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression / Geoffrey C. Bowker
  • "What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!" / Jonathan Sterne
  • Mediations and Their Others / Lucy Suchman
  • The People, Practices, and Promises of Information Networks. Making Media Work: Time, Space, Identity, and Labor in the Analysis of Information and Communication Infrastructures / Gregory J. Downey
  • The Relevance of Algorithms / Tarleton Gillespie
  • The Fog of Freedom / Christopher Kelty
  • Rethinking Repair / Steven J. Jackson
  • Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics / Sonia Livingstone
  • The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks / Fred Turner.