Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic

ISBN-13: 9781498520478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Piyush Mathur

Opis

Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic claims and illustrates that technologies command communicative agency; vary in the degrees to which they invite mass communication about themselves; and remain relatively immune, amenable, or vulnerable to particular kinds of mass communication more than others. It contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-a-vis technology--if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Piyush Mathur grapples with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication. On the whole, though, the book brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.