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Life after new media : mediation as a vital process /

By: Kember, Sarah
Title By: Zylinska, Joanna
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2015.Description: xx, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780262018197Subject(s): Mass media and technology -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Social aspects | Social mediaDDC classification: 302.23 Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated--subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

Epigraph : media, Mars, and metamorphosis, an excerpt -- Introduction : new media, old hat -- 1. Mediation and the vitality of media -- 2. Catastrophe "live" -- 3. Cut! The imperative of photographic mediation -- Interlude : I don't go to the movies -- 4. Home, sweet intelligent home -- 5. Sustainability, self-preservation, and self-mediation -- 6. Face-to-Facebook, or, the ethics of mediation : from media ethics to an ethics of mediation -- 7. Remediating creativity : performance, invention, critique -- Conclusion : creative media manifesto.

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated--subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms.

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