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Pablo J. Boczkowski - Abundance, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Abundance

On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

Av Pablo J. Boczkowski

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Beskrivning
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of information abundance in the Global South, Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-09-24
  • Mått: 163 x 236 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 363 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780197565759
  • Utmärkelser: Winner, 2022 Ethnography Division Best Book Award, National Communication Association Honorable Mention, 2023 Journalism Studies Division Book Award, International Communication Association Named one of 30 Argentina Key Titles of 2023 by Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations, the Argentine Book Chamber, and the Argentine Agency for International Investment and Commerce Winner, Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology Association
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Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media, and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, both at Northwestern. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina, a joint initiative between Northwestern and Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires. He is the author or co-author of four books, four edited volumes, and over fifty journal articles.

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[E]legantly written, erudite, and literary, while highly accessible and with the academese kept to a minimum. ... an ideal text to assign for undergraduate and graduate courses in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from journalism to international development studies, from sociology of news to history of communications.

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