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Media Technologies

Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society
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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

Author Biography:

Tarleton Gillespie is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of Wired Shut- Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press). Pablo J. Boczkowski is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Digitizing the News- Innovation in Online Newspapers, coauthor of The News Gap- When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge, and coeditor of Remaking the News- Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (all published by the MIT Press). Kirsten A. Foot is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, and lead author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press). Tarleton Gillespie is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of Wired Shut- Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press). Pablo J. Boczkowski is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Digitizing the News- Innovation in Online Newspapers, coauthor of The News Gap- When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge, and coeditor of Remaking the News- Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (all published by the MIT Press). Kirsten A. Foot is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, and lead author of Web Campaigning (MIT Press). Pablo J. Boczkowski is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Digitizing the News- Innovation in Online Newspapers, coauthor of The News Gap- When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge, and coeditor of Remaking the News- Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (all published by the MIT Press). Finn Brunton is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and the author of Spam- A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press). Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out- Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press. Tarleton Gillespie is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of Wired Shut- Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press).
Release date Australia
January 24th, 2014
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Finn Brunton
  • Contributions by Gabriella Coleman
  • Contributions by Ignacio Siles
  • Contributions by Kirsten A. Foot
  • Contributions by Leah A. Lievrouw
  • Contributions by Pablo J. Boczkowski
  • Contributions by Tarleton Gillespie
  • Edited by Kirsten A. Foot
  • Edited by Pablo J. Boczkowski
  • Edited by Tarleton Gillespie
Illustrations
10 figures; 10 Illustrations, unspecified
Pages
344
Dimensions
152x229x14
ISBN-13
9780262525374
Product ID
21396059

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