Electronic media and technoculture
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Never before has the future been so systematically envisioned, aggressively analyzed, and grandly theorized as in the present rush to cyberspace and digitalization. In the mid-twentieth century, questions about media technologies and society first emerged as scholarly hand-wringing about the deleterious sweep of electronic media and information technologies in mass culture. Now, questions about new technologies and their social and cultural impact are no longer limited to intellectual soothsayers in the academy but are pervasive parts of day-to-day discourses in newspapers, magazines, television, and film. Electronic Media and Technoculture anchors contemporary discussion of the digital future within a critical tradition about the media arts, society, and culture. The collection examines a range of phenomena, from boutique cyber-practices to the growing ubiquity of e-commerce and the internet. The essays chart a critical field in media studies, providing a historical perspective on theories of new media. The contributors place discussions of producing technologies in dialogue with consuming technologies, new media in relation to old media, and argue that digital media should not be restricted to the constraining public discourses of either the computer, broadcast, motion-picture, or internet industries. The collection charts a range of theoretical positions to assist readers interested in new media and to enable them to weather the cycles of hardware obsolescence and theoretical volatility that characterize the present rush toward digital technologies. Contributors include Ien Ang, John Caldwell, Cynthia Cockburn, Helen Cunningham, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Guillermo G=mez-Pe±a, Arthur Kroker, Bill Nichols, Andrew Ross, Ellen Seiter, Vivian Sobchack, AllucquFre Rosanne Stone, Ravi Sundaram, Michael A. Weinstein, Raymond Williams, and Brian Winston.
Title |
Electronic media and technoculture / edited and with an introduction by John Thornton Caldwell. |
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Publisher |
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press |
Creation Date |
[2018] |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
The technology and the society / Raymond Williams -- Constituents of a theory of the media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Breakages limited / Brian Winston -- The work of culture in the age of cybernetic systems / Bill Nichols -- The theory of the virtual class / Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein -- The scene of the screen: envisioning cinematic and electronic "presence" / Vivian Sobchack -- Sex, death, and machinery or how I fell in love with my prosthesis / Allucquère Rosanne Stone -- New technologies, audience measurement, and the tactics of television consumption / Ien Ange -- The circuit of technology: gender, identity, and power / Cynthia Cockburn -- Moral kombat and computer game girls / Helen Cunningham -- Television and the Internet / Ellen Seiter -- Hacking away at the counterculture / Andrew Ross -- Beyond the nationalist panopticon: the experience of cyberpublics in India / Ravi Sundaram -- The virtual barrio @ the other frontier (or the Chicano interneta / Guillermo Gómez-Peña). |
Series |
Rutgers depth of field series |
Extent |
1 online resource (331 pages). |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2018 |
National Library system number |
997012369303005171 |
MARC RECORDS
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