Media technology : critical perspectives / / Joost Van Loon |
Autore | Loon Joost van |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Maidenhead, England ; , : New York, : McGraw-Hill/Open University, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23 |
Collana | Issues in cultural and media studies |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media - Philosophy
Mass media - Technological innovations - History Mass media - Technological innovations - Social aspects Mass media |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-33131-7
0-335-23531-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front cover; Half title; Series editor; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Saeries Editor's Foreword; Chapter 1: An Introduction; Chapter 2: A Critical History of Media Technology; Chapter 3: Alternative Trajectories: Technology as Culture; Chapter 4: 'Media as extensions of wo/man: Feminist perspectives on mediation and technological embodiment; Chapter 5: New media and networked (dis) embodiment; Chapter 6: Conclusion: Theorizing media technology; Glossary; References; Index; Back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450959103321 |
Loon Joost van | ||
Maidenhead, England ; , : New York, : McGraw-Hill/Open University, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / / Joost van Loon |
Autore | Loon Joost van |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina | 302/.12 |
Collana | International library of sociology |
Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk perception Technology - Social aspects Culture |
ISBN |
1-134-58446-6
1-134-58447-4 0-203-46638-1 0-585-44916-3 1-280-31788-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a sociology of virulence; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Technological culture and risk; The ascendance of risk; Risk, technology and culture; Information and communication technologies; Rationale; PART I Theoretical framework; 2 Cultivating risks: Paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck; Excess modernization; Individualization and reflexivity; The communicative logic of risk: autopoietic systems; Confronting subpolitics; Reason without faith
3 Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: Notes on Actor Network TheoryTechnoscience in action; Actor networks: the fixation of risks; Representations and virtual objects; Risk as a virtual object: the case of BSE/vCJD; Conclusion; 4 Assemblages and deviations: Biophilosophical reflections on risk; Politics, embodiment and technoculture: diffractions of Donna Haraway; Symbiosis and assemblage: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; A nomadology of risk; Contingency, risk and the monad: Jean-François Lyotard's apocalypse 5 A theoretical framework: Risk as the critical limit of technological cultureThe logic of en-presenting: visualization, signification and objectification; The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; PART II The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; 6 Cultivating waste: Excessive risks in an economy of opportunities; Waste and risk; Politicizing waste; Technological culture's response: a biopolitics of waste; Conclusion: waste as a virulent abject of modernity; 7 Emergent pathogen virulence: Understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture; Emergent pathogen virulence: Ebola Explanations of increased pathogen virulenceSigns of the times: an emergent apocalypse culture; Enrolling virulence; Conclusion; 8 Cyberrisks: Telematic symbiosis and computer viruses; Exposing 'the' environment: a cybernetic turn; Virtual risks and telematic symbiosis; Cyberrisks; The jouissance of viral terrorism; Neutralize the neurosis!; 9 Race, riots and risk: Media technologies and the engineering of moral panics; The warfare state; Moral panics; Racialization through mythification; The beating of Rodney King; The verdict; Media hybridities; Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Risk and apocalypse cultureRecapitulation; Against the autopoiesis of risk aversion: symbiosis and the nomadic war machine; Apocalypse cultures; Fidelity; Dangers and saving powers; Notes; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816361603321 |
Loon Joost van | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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