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Informationen zum Autor Joost Van Loon is professor of media analysis at Nottingham Trent University. His current research focuses on risk, social engineering and technological innovation. He has published widely in the areas of social theory and media studies, including the 'Risk and Technological Culture' (2002) and the co-edited 'The Risk Society and Beyond'. He is also co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Space and Culture. Klappentext What are media? Why are more and more objects being turned into media? How do people interconnect with the media in structuring their everyday lives? In Media Technology: Critical Perspectives , Joost van Loon illustrates how throughout the course of society, different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions, expectations and interpretations of reality. Drawing on the work of media scholars such as Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Raymond Williams, the author provides a theoretical analysis of the complexity of media processes. He urges the reader to challenge mainstream assumptions of media merely as instruments of communication, and shows how the matter, form, use and purpose of media technologies can affect content. The book uses practical examples from both old and new media to help readers think through complex issues about the place of media. This helps to create a more innovative toolkit for understanding what media actually are and the basis for trying to make sense of what media actually do. It uses case studies and examples from television, radio, print, computer games and domestic appliances. Media Technology is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on media, social theory and critical theory-related courses. Zusammenfassung This book uses practical examples from both old and new media to illustrate how throughout the course of societym different forms of media have helped to shape our perceptions! expectations and interpretations of reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction A critical history of media technology Alternative trajectories: Technology as culture 'Media as extensions of wo/man': Feminist perspectives on mediation and technological embodiment New media and networked (dis)embodiment Conclusion: Theorizing media technology Glossary References Index ...
