Life after New Media

Life after New Media
Author :
Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780262527460
ISBN-13 : 0262527464
Rating : 4/5 (464 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Life after New Media by : Sarah Kember

Download or read book Life after New Media written by Sarah Kember and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated—subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation—all-encompassing and indivisible—becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a “cut” to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of “doing” media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.


Life after New Media Related Books

Life after New Media
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Sarah Kember
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-05 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New
Life After New Media
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Sarah Kember
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-21 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

An argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.
Media Life
Language: en
Pages: 413
Authors: Mark Deuze
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-23 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday l
The Hype Machine
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Sinan Aral
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-15 - Publisher: Currency

GET EBOOK

A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into
Always Already New
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Lisa Gitelman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-29 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

In Always Already New, Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded so