Technological Forms and Ecological Communication

A Theoretical Heuristic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology—if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, though, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-25
Mått:158 x 238 x 28 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498520478

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Piyush Mathur is an independent scholar.

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Mathur’s classifications can serve as the basis of further investigation into the relationship between mass communication, technologies, and ecology and stimulate the intellectual development of the field of eco-communication. Readers will do well by keeping some technologies of interest in mind as they follow the chronicles. On the whole, Technological Forms constitutes a substantial resource for communication scholars, philosophers of technology, those engaged in environmental studies and development studies as well as historians and philosophers of science.

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ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceList of FiguresChapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & CommunicationChapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian FrameworkChapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two ApproachesChapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed ScienceChapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of ScienceChapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual ReinforcementThe Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of ScienceChapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical ConceptChapter 8: Science: A Basket CategoryAnd why Science-Technology Differential Matters to CommunicationChapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of TechnologyChapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant TechnologiesChapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated TechnologiesChapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative TechnologiesChapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication TechnologiesChapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain TechnologiesChapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of DevelopmentChapter 16: Conclusion BibliographyAbout the Author