Exploring technology and social space

Author(s)

• Wise, J. Macgregor (John Macgregor)

Bibliographic Information

Exploring technology and social space

J. Macgregor Wise

（New media cultures）

Sage Publications, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 191-204

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

Table of Contents

EPISTEME Introduction Slouching towards Tralfamadore The Modern Episteme Beyond the Modern Episteme Space and Agency in the Land of the Cyborgs Living in a Deleuzian World ASSEMBLAGE Making Television, Making History AT&T Builds the Bomb Communications From SDI to NII through the MSI Welcome to Your Assemblage It's a Small World After All Rethinking the NIICO and the GII Conclusion Technology is License to Forget

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Details

• NCID: BA33312895
• ISBN:
  • 0761904212
  • 0761904220
• LCCN: 97021185
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 213 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : T14.5
  • DC21 : 303.48/33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Technology -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Information technology -- Social aspects
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33313027