Kember, Sarah

Life after new media : mediation as a vital process / Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2015. - xx, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and index.

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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Mass media and technology--Social aspects
Digital media--Social aspects
Social media

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