Digital media ecologies : entanglements of content, code and hardware /
Author / Creator: | Taffel, Sy, author. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2019. |
Description: | 250 pages ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11973948 |
Summary: | Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers. |
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Physical Description: | 250 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781501349249 1501349244 9781501349263 |