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Author : Vincent Mosco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Pushbutton Fantasies written by Vincent Mosco and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Dyer-Witheford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067952
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Cyber-Marx written by Nick Dyer-Witheford and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another. Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.
Author : Thomas Streeter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226777294
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Selling the Air written by Thomas Streeter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting—the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences—and constitute it as something that can be bought, owned, and sold. With an impressive command of broadcast history, as well as critical and cultural studies of the media, Streeter shows that liberal marketplace principles—ideas of individuality, property, public interest, and markets—have come into contradiction with themselves. Commercial broadcasting is dependent on government privileges, and Streeter provides a searching critique of the political choices of corporate liberalism that shape our landscape of cultural property and electronic intangibles.
Author : Kavous Ardalan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351296183
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Understanding Globalization written by Kavous Ardalan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses eight dimensions of globalization—world order, culture, the state, information technology, economics, production, development, and Bretton Woods Institutions—from the perspective of four diverse sociological paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. This multi-perspective approach forces readers to abandon their preconcieved assumptions and allows them the opportunity to view globalization through new eyes. Kavous Ardalan argues that social theory can usefully be conceived in terms of these four key paradigms because each one is founded upon different assumptions about the nature of social science and each one generates useful theories, concepts, and analytical tools. This method facilitates distancing from one's favored paradigm and appreciating other available approaches to better understand social phenomena. The knowledge of paradigms increases awareness of the boundaries and limitations of each individual paradigm. While most books on the topic focus on particular aspects of globalization from specific viewpoints, this fair and unbiased volume provides readers with a balanced understanding of globalization.
Author : Urs E. Gattiker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110887606
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Women and Technology written by Urs E. Gattiker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Women and Technology".
Author : Jörg Becker
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180691720
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Communication and Conflict written by Jörg Becker and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at various conferences and articles; some previously published.
Author : James A. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135152365
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Communication Yearbook 12 written by James A. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and then critiqued by other authorities (often representing complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television.
Author : Dan Schiller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197639259
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Crossed Wires written by Dan Schiller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.
Author : Vincent Mosco
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299115746
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Information written by Vincent Mosco and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers information as an economic good, and examines its effects on political economy as well as on social life and skill needs. Includes case studies of electronic homework in the Federal Republic of Germany and information technologies in the ASEAN countries.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Social and Economic Impact of Videotex, Teletext and Computers written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Wexler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9087902751
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Symbolic Movement written by Philip Wexler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about sociology of education—past, present and future.
Author : Vanda Rideout
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773570500
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications written by Vanda Rideout and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rideout focuses on the protection of the public interest, a crucial element neglected by most recent studies, and shows that although alliances have been formed between labour, consumers, and public interest activists, significant disagreements over issues such as free trade, long distance and local competition, and a targeted subsidy program for very low-income Canadians have meant that this united front has not been able to counter the forces of the new neo-liberal telecommunication policy regime. Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications details the complex relationships between the various corporate and government interests, shows how the changes they brought about have locked Canada's telecommunications system into the orbit of the US system, and discusses the implications this has for Canadians.
Author : Rhonda Hammer
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495262
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Media/cultural Studies written by Rhonda Hammer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Connections written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bella Mody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136755934
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Telecommunications Politics written by Bella Mody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars and policymakers to address the issue of telecommunications policy in developing countries. It elaborates on the position that economics and technology determine the framework for discussion, but politics makes the decision. Politics, in this case, refers to the dynamics of the power structure generated by the h
Author : Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525372
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Media Technologies written by Tarleton Gillespie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive. Contributors Pablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner
Author : Hamid Mowlana
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761952572
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Global Information and World Communication written by Hamid Mowlana and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations. Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts - political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and sho
