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Life After New Media - by Sarah Kember & Joanna Zylinska (Paperback)

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  • An argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media.
  • About the Author: Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of The Optical Effects of Lightning.
  • 288 Pages
  • Social Science, Media Studies

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An argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.



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An argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.

In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects--computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles--to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated--subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms.

By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation--all-encompassing and indivisible--becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a "cut" to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of "doing" media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.



About the Author



Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of The Optical Effects of Lightning.

Joanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media and the coauthor (with Sarah Kember) of Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process, both published by the MIT Press.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.9 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.01 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Media Studies
Genre: Social Science
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Sarah Kember & Joanna Zylinska
Language: English
Street Date: December 5, 2014
TCIN: 89670914
UPC: 9780262527460
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-5894
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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