Media technologies : essays on communication, materiality, and society / edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillespie, Tarleton, editor.

Boczkowski, Pablo J., editor.

Foot, Kirsten A., editor.

Series:

Inside technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media.

Communication and technology.

Physical Description:

xii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Tarleton Gillespie Gillespie, Tarleton, Pablo J. Boczkowski Boczkowski, Pablo J., Kirsten A. Foot Foot, Kirsten A. 1

I The Materiality of Mediated Knowledge and Expression

2 Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project / Leah A. Lievrouw Lievrouw, Leah A. 21

3 Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content / Pablo J. Boczkowski Boczkowski, Pablo J., Ignacio Siles Siles, Ignacio 53

4 Closer to the Metal / Finn Brunton Brunton, Finn, Gabriella Coleman Coleman, Gabriella 77

5 Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression / Geoffrey C. Bowker Bowker, Geoffrey C. 99

6 "What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!" / Jonathan Sterne Sterne, Jonathan 119

7 Mediations and Their Others / Lucy Suchman Suchman, Lucy 129

II The People, Practices, and Promises of Information Networks

8 Making Media Work: Time, Space, Identity, and Labor in the Analysis of Information and Communication Infrastructures / Gregory J. Downey Downey, Gregory J. 141

9 The Relevance of Algorithms / Tarleton Gillespie Gillespie, Tarleton 167

10 The Fog of Freedom / Christopher M. Kelty Kelty, Christopher M. 195

11 Rethinking Repair / Steven J. Jackson Jackson, Steven J. 221

12 Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics / Sonia Livingstone Livingstone, Sonia 241

13 The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks / Fred Turner Turner, Fred 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262525372

9780262525374

OCLC:

842500092

Publisher Number:

99956855818