In Search of Media – serie
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18 produkter
Vector Media
Av Leonardo Impett, Fabian Offert
Häftad, 2026
202 kr
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Dispelling the notion of "generative" AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert parse theories of automatic vision to trace contemporary artificial intelligence's technical …
Digital Theory
Av M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
202 kr
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Proposes a powerful new theoretical approach to the concept of the digitalDigital Theory argues that the digital is theoretical and should be understood not uniquely in terms of consumer electronics but rather more broadly as a form of mediation using discrete units. Building on this definition, …
Data Fluencies
Av Philippa R. Adams, Roopa Vasudevan m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
356 kr
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Creating communities of care in the digital worldData Fluencies offers a model for enacting theories of data justice, methods of community engagement, and practical approaches to disrupting institutions and infrastructures that have diminished the capacities of everyday digital technology users. …
Pattern Discrimination
Av Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
202 kr
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How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them? To answer this question, this book investigates a fundamental axiom in computer science: pattern …
Markets
Av Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
204 kr
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A media theory of marketsMarkets abound in media-but a media theory of markets is still emerging. Anthropology offers media archaeologies of markets, and the sociology of markets and finance unravels how contemporary financial markets have witnessed a media technological arms race. Building on such …
Communication
Av Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
202 kr
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On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman formsContemporary communication puts us not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Machine communication-to communicate not just via but also with machines-is therefore the focus of this volume. Diving into …
Remain
Av Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
202 kr
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Engaging with remains and remainders of media culturesAs new, as current, as now-this is primarily our understanding of technologies and their mediating of our social constructions. But past media and past practices continue to haunt and inflect our present social and technical arrangements. To …
Machine
Av Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
202 kr
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On the social consequences of machinesAutomation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of …
Undoing Networks
Av Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnectingHow do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: “digital detox” is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. …
Organize
Av Timon Beyes, Lisa Conrad m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
204 kr
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A pioneering systematic inquiry into-and mapping of-the field of media and organization Media organize things into patterns and relations. As intermediaries among people and between people and worlds, media shape sociotechnical orders. At the same time, media are organized: while they condition …
Archives
Av Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
204 kr
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How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday usersArchives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” …
Action at a Distance
Av John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
204 kr
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How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media? Contemporary media leads us more than ever to an ‘acting at a distance,’ an acting entangled with the materiality of communication and the mediality of transmission. This book explores this crucial phenomenon thereby introducing urgent …
Really Fake
Av Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake The new truth is the one that circulates: digital truth emerges from lists, databases, archives, and conditions of storage. Multiple truths may be activated through search, link, and retrieve queries. …
Media and Management
Av Rutvica Andrijasevic, Melissa Gregg m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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An essential account of how the media devices we use today inherit the management practices governing factory laborThis book argues that management is enabled by media forms, just as media gives life to management. Media technologies central to management have included the stopwatch, the punch …
Technopharmacology
Av Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
210 kr
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Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticalsBeing on social media, having pornography or an internet addiction, consciousness hacking, and mundane smartness initiatives are practices embodied in a similar manner to the …
Digital Energetics
Av Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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Exploring the connections between energy and media-and what those connections mean for our current momentEnergy and media are the entangled middles of social life-and also of each other. This volume traces the contours of both a media analytic of energy and an energy analytic of media across the …
Boundary Images
Av Giselle Beiguelman, Melody Devries m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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How are images made, and how should we understand their limits, capacities, and forces in digital media?While functioning as representations or mediations of the political, images also act through the technologies and social processes that they claim only to represent. In both capacities, images …
Neural Networks
Av Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo LePage-Richer m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
202 kr
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A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses and technical practicesNeural Networks proposes to reconstruct situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ontological assumptions that inform the computational …
