Media technology: critical perspectives
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1. Verfasser: Loon, Joost van (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Maidenhead McGraw-Hill/Open University Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:Issues in cultural and media studies
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
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ISBN:033523531X
9780335235315

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