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

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Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Description:xii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Inside technology
Inside technology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9906458
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Other authors / contributors:Gillespie, Tarleton, editor of compilation.
Boczkowski, Pablo J., editor of compilation.
Foot, Kirsten A., editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780262525374 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262525372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • About the Contributors
  • Editors' Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. The Materiality of Mediated Knowledge and Expression
  • 2. Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies: An Unfinished Project
  • 3. Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content
  • 4. Closer to the Metal
  • 5. Emerging Configurations of Knowledge Expression
  • 6. "What Do We Want?" "Materiality!" "When Do We Want It?" "Now!"
  • 7. Mediations and Their Others
  • 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
  • 9. The Relevance of Algorithms
  • 10. The Fog of Freedom
  • 11. Rethinking Repair
  • 12. Identifying the Interests of Digital Users as Audiences, Consumers, Workers, and Publics
  • 13. The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Networks
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index