Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users

ISBN-13: 9781433148460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

(David) Travers Scott

Opis

Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at "technopathologies."

Recenzje

"Pathology & Technology is a fresh and original book-a deeply researched study of how (some) tech users are demonized as diseased. D. Travers Scott traces the media and popular discourses that label some technologies-or really their users-as 'sick'. Mixing history, focus group interviews, and discourse analysis, the book is a rich investigation of how 'technopathologies' emerge and circulate. Pathology & Technology is ultimately a book about invisible politics-about how medicalized tech talk renders and then contains 'bad users.'"-Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College; Author of James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University's Margins

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction: Pathological Technoculture: Sick Users and Reinforced Stereotypes - Pathology Shapes Subjects: Gendering and Normalizing - Audiences and Users: A False Dichotomy of Entangled Subjects - Not So Crazy: Electrical Logics of Technopathologies - The Electrical Banal: Anderson, SC, "The Electric City" - Not So New: Historic Continuity and the Pathologization of Users - Technopathologies as Social Disease: Reproducing Good and Bad Users - Technopathologies as Outbreaks: Carriers and Demonized Collectivity - Conclusion: All Users Are Sick: The Normalization of Disease - Index.

O autorze

D. Travers Scott is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Clemson University, South Carolina. He holds a PhD in communication from Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, a Master of Communication in Digital Media from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.