Making Media Futures - Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations

This book offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media. It will interest media studies, STS, history, philosophy, intersection of engineering, humanities and social sciences, sustainability, ethics, and responsible innovation.

List of contents

Foreword - Making Media Futures, or How Futures in the Mirror of Media May be Closer than They appear
1. Introducing Imagination Technologies: Making Media Futures & Future-Making Media
I. Imagination and Future Media: Theoretical Reflections
2. The Quantum Computer as a Medium of the Future: Imaginaries of Quantum Computing in Alex Garland's Mini-Series Devs
3. Gilbert Simondon's Image Theory and Human-Technology Relations through Imagination and AI Image-Generation
4. No (Media) Future: Queer Theory, Reproductive Futurism, and 5G
II. The Mediality of Imaginaries: Empirical Insights
5. Socio-technical imaginaries of the Internet of Things
6. Transmedia Strategies of Young Climate Activists: On the Communities Constituting the Fridays for Future movement in Brazil
III. Social and Cultural Constructions of Media Imaginaries: Historical Accounts
7. American Evangelicals and the Imaginary Realm on Radio, 1920-70
8. Reorganizing the Postwar Scientific Record: Vannevar Bush's Vision of "Memex"
Index

About the author

Phillip H. Roth is a Media Sociologist and Science Studies Scholar, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Ana María Guzmán Olmos is a Research Associate at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Bonn.
Alin Olteanu is Associate Professor of Semiotics, Multimodality and Media Technologies at Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Associate Researcher with Babe¿-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Stefan Böschen is Professor for Society and Technology, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, and spokesperson of the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip H. (Rwth Aachen University Roth
• Assisted by: Stefan Böschen (Editor), Ana María Guzmán Olmos (Editor), Olteanu Alin (Editor), Phillip H. Roth (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032741574
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274157-4
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, LAW / Computer & Internet, The arts, Human-Computer Interaction, Humanities, Communication Studies, Social and cultural history, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Legal aspects of IT, Human–computer interaction, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects