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Zusatztext Marcel O’Gorman’s splendid book features rabbits, rabbit holes, 3D prints and prosthetic limbs, conductive play dough, and soil sensors; it features philosophy and thinkering, matters and mattering, a good dose of critical crapentry , and a labful of insightful media theory. That teaser list is just one way of saying: this book is a must-read that I recommend to use as an operating manual. Informationen zum Autor Marcel O’Gorman is a University Research Chair, Professor of English, and Founding Director of the Critical Media Lab (CML), where he teaches courses in digital design and the philosophy of technology, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. O’Gorman has published widely about the impacts of technology on society, including his most recent book Necromedia and articles in Slate, The Atlantic, and The Globe and Mail. He is also a digital artist with an international portfolio of exhibitions and performances. Making Media Theory is an investigation and demonstration of hands-on approaches to the study and practice of Media Theory. Zusammenfassung Making Media Theory is about the study, practice, and hands-on design of media theory. It looks at experimental research methods and engages in media analysis, inviting readers to respond to and shape the materiality of media while carefully considering the implications of living in a technoculture. The author walks readers through the creation of digital objects to think with, where critical design practices serve as tools for exploring social and philosophical issues related to technological being and becoming. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Making, Media, and Theory2. Workshop: Conductive Play Dough3. In Defence of Uselessness4. Workshop: Useless Box5. Writing with a Soldering Iron6. Workshop: Smartphone Basket7. Designing Technological Comportment: Wearables, Digital Rituals, and Non-Users8. Workshop: Resistor CaseEpilogue: Dirty MediaBibliographyIndex...
