Cultural Technologies

The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society
Herausgeber: Bolin, Göran

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9780415893114
• ISBN-10: 0415893119
• Artikelnr.: 32727905

Autorenporträt

Goran Bolin is Professor of Media & Communication Studies at Sodertorn University.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of
Technology Göran BolinPart 1: Histories of Cultural Technologies 2. The
Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing
Implications of the Image William Uricchio 3. The Compact Disc and Its
Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler 4. Peer-to-peer
File-sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin 5.
Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to
Infrastructure Lisa ParksPart 2: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies
6. Being 'Accountable': TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller 7. Time,
Space and Clouds of Information: Data Center Discourse and the Meaning of
Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt 8. Search Engines in
Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van
Couvering 9. Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire
Sandra BramanPart 3: Uses of Cultural Technologies 10. Web 2.0 Technologies
of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden 11. Virtual Technologies of
Nation-States. State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson 12. The
Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research
Joke Hermes