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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; volume 88
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 88.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Marion Naser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Theorizing Traffic. Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture / John Durham Peters -- Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media / Gabriele Schabacher -- Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory / Jana Mangold -- Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? / Hartmut Winkler -- Traffic of Concepts. Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality / Grant David Bollmer -- Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication / Norm Friesen -- McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism / Richard Cavell -- Contents. Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions / Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat -- Time, Space, and Power. Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther / Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz -- Nomads of the Technical Sublime / Peter Krapp -- Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance / Wolfgang Suetzl -- Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel / Wolf-Dieter Ernst. |
| Summary |
Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents a collection of texts by distinguished international media and cultural scholars that addresses fundamental relationships between the logistic, symbolic, and infrastructural dimensions of media. The volume discusses the role of traffic and infrastructures within the history of media theory as well as in a broader cultural context: Traffic is shown to constitute an important epistemological and technical principle, a paradigm for exchanges and circulations between discoursive and non-discoursive cultural practices. This opens an encompassing perspective of media ecology, and at the same time illuminates the formative power of traffic as structuring time and space: material and informational traffic creates, maintains, and undermines power, configures meaning, and facilitates appropriation and resistance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media.
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Mass media. |
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Communication.
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Communication. |
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Näser-Lather, Marion, 1977- editor.
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Neubert, Christoph, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Traffic 9789004299801 (DLC) 2015019146 |
| ISBN |
9004298770 (electronic book) |
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9789004298774 (electronic book) |
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9789004299801 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9004299807 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004298774 |
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