Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society

by Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski

Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525372
• ISBN13: 9780262525374
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher