Description

Book Synopsis
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 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

Media Technologies Essays on Communication

    Product form

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

    £40.85

    Includes FREE delivery

    RRP £43.00 – you save £2.15 (5%)

    Order before 4pm tomorrow for delivery by Wed 2 Sep 2026.

    15 in stock

      Trusted by thousands of customers. See 2,385+ Customer Reviews

      View other formats and editions of Media Technologies Essays on Communication by Tarleton Gillespie

      Book details

      Publisher MIT Press
      Published 1/24/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780262525374
      978-0262525374
      ISBN-10 0262525372
      Also in:
      Communication studies Technology, Engineering & Agriculture Communications engineering / telecommunications

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account