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Navigating Technomedia : Caught in the Web by Sam Han (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-100742560236
ISBN-139780742560239
eBay Product ID (ePID)61816179
Product Key Features
Number of Pages186 Pages
Publication NameNavigating Technomedia : Caught in the Web
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectSocial Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Sociology / General, Digital Media / General, Telecommunications, Virtual Worlds, Information Technology
TypeTextbook
AuthorSam Han
Subject AreaComputers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-028037
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsCaught in the Web is a clear, exciting, and complete survey of our changing commuicative environment. One of the book's most intriguing ideas is that New Media has created a social space that is as much virtual as it is real., [Han] attempts to create a broader theoretical footing for delving deeper into how technomedia establishes the virtual era, and what this means for everyday life and social experience. Recommended., In NavigatingTechnomedia Sam Han explores the fate of being itself, when all things solid have turned into telelectronics. Here, reflexive human subjectivity mutates into a neurotic mosaic of nodal interfaces as techno-denizens of the early twenty-first century find themselves adrift in incessant waves of communication with sentient beings of all sorts, only some of which are human. Han's discerning work provokes a critical, theoretical, and physical encounter with the networked streams of media that feedback upon the energetic material flows and modulating identities of those caught in a web of global capitalist and technological transformations in power, knowledge, and the constitution of life itself.
Dewey Decimal303.4833
Table Of ContentChapter 1 Chapter One: Technomedia Chapter 2 Chapter Two: A Rapport with Knowledge Chapter 3 Chapter Three: Space, Time and Matter in the Virtual Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Ghosts of the Subject Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Culture, Information and Politics
SynopsisFrom email to video and text messaging, so much of our present social life depends on media technologies. Today it is clearer than ever that these not only play an active part in our everyday lives, but constitute our increasingly global realities. Caught in the Web argues for a new approach to media theory that allows technomedia to be studied on its own terms. Engaging in sociology, social theory, philosophy, and media studies, it provides an analysis of contemporary media technologies through the lens of various themes, including the modernity/postmodernity debate, the state of knowledge, space/time, and cultural politics in our contemporary information age. At once an introduction to concepts in media studies and a critical work, Caught in the Web attempts to situate high theory in everyday life., This is an introductory survey of what the author calls the 'technomedia', the generation of communication technologies after television, cell phones and the first wave of the Internet. Beginning with a history of media, the book explores the nature and effects of technomedia like the blogosphere, Blackberries and related technologies. Because they are transforming the relations of their users to the social environment, the topic is fast becoming an important focus of modern social theory.
LC Classification NumberHM851.H345 2007
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