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Life after New Media - Mediation as a Vital Process
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Gewicht:
628 g
Format:
234x184x22 mm
Beschreibung:
Sarah Kember is Reader in New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of The Optical Effects of Lightning. Joanna Zylinska is Reader in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009) and other books, and a fine-art photographer
the book makes a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. The authors 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 Zylinskas account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities