出版信息
《Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society》是一本由塔勒頓·吉萊斯皮(Tarleton Gillespie)、巴勃羅·J·博茨科夫斯基(Pablo J. Boczkowski)和柯爾斯滕·A·富特(Kirsten A. Foot)共同編輯的學術論文集。該書由麻省理工學院出版社(The MIT Press)於2014年1月24日出版,全書共344頁,
ISBN為9780262525374。
該書旨在橋接科學技術研究(
STS)與媒體傳播研究(MCS),將媒體技術視為複雜的社會物質性現象進行探討。書中收錄了包括史蒂文·J·傑克遜(Steven J. Jackson)的《反思修理》(“Rethinking Repair”)在內的多篇論文。
內容簡介
《Media Technologies》是由Tarleton Gillespie、Pablo J. Boczkowski和Kirsten A. Foot編輯,於2014年由The MIT Press出版的論文集。該文集的核心目的在於彌合科學技術研究(STS)與媒體與傳播研究(MCS)之間的鴻溝。近年來,圍繞媒體技術的學術研究已經擺脫了技術與社會生活分離且單向決定的舊有假設,轉而將技術視為在社會、文化和政治實踐中被生產並嵌入其中的產物。
書中學者們將媒體技術視為複雜的“社會物質性”現象進行研究。內容主要圍繞兩個方向展開:一是探討物質性與中介性之間的關係,例如網路基礎設施的現實體驗;二是強調媒體技術始終處於動態之中,依賴於大量細微、未被察覺的維護工作才得以存續。書中收錄了如史蒂文·傑克遜(Steven J. Jackson)的《反思修理》(“Rethinking Repair”)等重要論文,該文主張從“腐蝕、故障、衰退”而非“新奇、增長和進步”的視角來審視社會與技術的關係。
作者簡介
Tarleton Gillespie是
康奈爾大學傳播學副教授,著有《Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture》。Pablo J. Boczkowski是
西北大學傳播學研究Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani教授,合著《The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge》。Kirsten A. Foot也是本書的編者之一。
作品特點
本書關注物質性與中介之間的關係,例如網路基礎設施的現實。該文集強調媒體技術始終處於動態之中,依賴於大量細微的、不為人察覺的工作來維繫其存在,包括使其保持運作的努力。
書中收錄了Steven J. Jackson的經典論文《Rethinking Repair》,該論文提出從“腐蝕、故障、衰退”而非“新奇、增長和進步”出發來思考技術與社會的關係。本書的貢獻者包括Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner等學者。
學術影響
《Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society》旨在連線科學技術研究(STS)與媒體與傳播研究(MCS),推動將媒體技術視為複雜的社會物質性現象的研究視角。在相關領域的外文文獻被引分析中,本書是被引率最高的著作之一。
書中收錄的論文,如史蒂文·傑克遜的《反思修理》,已成為後續研究的經典文獻,其關於以“腐蝕、故障、衰退”為起點思考技術與社會的觀點持續產生影響力。
內容簡介
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 scie...(展開全部) 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. 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 Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and coauthor (with Eugenia Mitchelstein) of The News Gap: When th...(展開全部) Tarleton Gillespie is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and the author of Wired Shut: Copyrig