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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