Technological forms and ecological communication : a theoretical heuristic / Piyush Mathur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathur, Piyush, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in science.

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Communication.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Science--History.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology-in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but-dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Technology, Ecology, and Communication 1

2 In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian Framework 17

3 Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two Approaches 39

4 Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Prefragmentation Termed Science 53

5 The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of Science 67

6 Mystique and Domination: A Matter of Mutual Reinforcement: The Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of Science 81

7 Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical Concept 101

8 Science: A Basket Category: And Why Science-Technology Differential Matters to Communication 115

9 An Eco-Communicative Theory of Technology 133

10 The Principle of Proximation: Proximate and Distant Technologies 145

11 The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, and Antiquated Technologies 163

12 The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative and Disseminative Technologies 187

13 The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies, Technologies of Polity, and Communication Technologies 193

14 The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain Technologies 217

15 The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of Development 233

16 Conclusion 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index.

ISBN:

9781498520478

1498520472

OCLC:

979567619