Media technology : critical perspectives /
Using philosophical and historical analysis, this book illustrates how throughout the course of society, different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions, expectations and interpretations.
| Основен автор: | Loon, Joost van. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Maidenhead ; New York :
McGraw-Hill/Open University Press,
2008.
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| Серия: |
Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=234316 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Media technology. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- Chapter 1: An Introduction
- Mediation as a black box
- Media as phenomena
- Mediation and politics
- Mediation as social interaction
- Mediation as cultural reproduction
- Technology as ordering
- Form
- Historicity
- Cultural embedding
- Embodiment (and disembodiment)
- Outline
- Suggested further reading
- Chapter 2: A Critical History of Media Technology
- Technological and social change: bias in the work of Harold Innis
- Wealth, power and knowledge
- From political economy to biophilosophy
- The tetrad
- Critical media analysis
- Media as 'Extensions of Man' [sic]
- An example: print in China and Europe
- Decentred subjects
- Hybrid media
- McLuhan as a cyborg theorist?
- Media evolutions
- An alternative critique
- Conclusion
- Suggested further reading
- Chapter 3: Alternative Trajectories
- A German trajectory: the work of Benjamin
- Benjamin's historical materialism
- 'The Work of Art' in an age of mechanical reproduction
- Cult value and exhibition value
- A British trajectory: Cultural Studies
- Raymond Williams' cultural history of television
- Against technological determinism
- Need and technological innovation
- Anglo-Germanic synergies?
- Aura and structure of feeling
- A French trajectories: Barthes and Baudrillard
- Barthes: text and image
- Text
- Image
- Denotation and connotation
- Baudrillard on electronic hyper-visualization
- Branding
- Popular valorization
- Telematics and the post-modern
- The simulacrum
- Entropy and self-referential mediation (autopoiesis)
- Conclusion
- Suggested further reading
- Chapter 4: 'Media as extensions of wo/man
- Technological fixation: engendering the gaze
- The pornography issue
- Pornography as a technology of mediation
- Simulation revisited: manipulating needs
- Feminist medium analyses
- Domestication
- The ascendance of 'the Feminine'
- Post-humanism and cyberfeminism
- Embodiment and enframing
- Conclusion
- Suggested further reading
- Chapter 5: New media and networked (dis) embodiment
- Electronic communication media
- The mass rally
- Telematics and disorientation
- Cyberspace and the interface
- Interfaciality and identification: the case of cyber rape
- Virtual being
- Touch
- Media as actor networks
- Analysing mediation as action
- Representation and re-presentation
- Transduction
- Mediation and trust
- Runescapism
- Conclusion
- Suggested further reading
- Chapter 6: Conclusion
- Mediation and 'thirdness'
- Attunement as a historical process
- Sensibility and cultural specificity
- Technological being
- Inspiration
- Coevolution
- Medium, space and time
- Glossary
- References
- Index.