Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World

by Rolien Hoyng

Book Overview

Challenges to Silicon Valley's dominant role in conjuring and patenting the world's technological futures are arising around the world. As digital media technologies emerge from new, globally dispersed locations, a multipolar order of communication innovation seems to be in the making. Yet recovering our ability to imagine futures otherwise requires negotiating conditions--economic, geopolitical, sociocultural, and ecological--rather than reproducing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611864291
• ISBN13: 9781611864298
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 230 Pages