ISBN:
9780203117354
,
9780415893114
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 209 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in cultural and media studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Technologies : The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society
DDC:
302.230973
Keywords:
Technology Sociological aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Mass media and technology
;
Mass media and culture
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, media and architecture, satellite debris, server farms and search engines, art installations, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, the construction of techno-history and much more, this book discusses both the culture 〈EM〉of 〈/EM〉technology that we live in today, and culture 〈EM〉as 〈/EM〉technology
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; 1 Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology; PART I Histories of Cultural Technologies; 2 The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image; 3 The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia; 4 Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution; 5 Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure; PART II Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies; 6 Being 'Accountable': TV Audiences and Surveillance
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Centre Discourse and the Meaning of Durability8 Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development; 9 Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire; PART III Uses of Cultural Technologies; 10 Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self; 11 Virtual Technologies of Nation-State: State Administration in Second Life; 12 The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Available via World Wide Web
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