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Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically with Technology


Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically with Technology

Paperback by O’Gorman, Marcel (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically with Technology

£23.99

ISBN:
9781501358616
Publication Date:
29 Oct 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Pages:
240 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 15 - 20 May 2024
Making Media Theory: Thinking Critically with Technology

Description

Making Media Theory is about the study, practice, and hands-on design of media theory. It looks at experimental research methods and engages in media analysis, inviting readers to respond to and shape the materiality of media while carefully considering the implications of living in a technoculture. The author walks readers through the creation of digital objects to think with, where critical design practices serve as tools for exploring social and philosophical issues related to technological being and becoming.

Contents

1. Making, Media, and Theory 2. Workshop: Conductive Play Dough 3. In Defence of Uselessness 4. Workshop: Useless Box 5. Writing with a Soldering Iron 6. Workshop: Smartphone Basket 7. Designing Technological Comportment: Wearables, Digital Rituals, and Non-Users 8. Workshop: Resistor Case Epilogue: Dirty Media Bibliography Index

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