Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies

Lievrouw, Leah A.

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“…Gerade in datengetriebenen Zeiten müssen wir uns darüber hinaus die Frage stellen, wie wir Medientechnologien in ihrer "Materialität" (Lievrouw 2014) in unserer Theoriebildung berücksichtigen. Wie bereits mit Bezug auf "software studies" deutlich gemacht, ist hier die Kommunikations-und Medienwissenschaft -zumindest im deutschsprachigen Raum -wesentlich zurückhaltender, als sie sein müsste (und als es gut ist).…”

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Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in datengetriebenen Zeiten

Hepp

2016

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Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in datengetriebenen Zeiten

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“…These materialities are interdependent, the forensic impinges upon the affordances of what message may be inscribed, whilst the formal message may impinge upon the operation of the mechanism itself (Allen-Robertson, 2015). Furthermore, these more object-oriented aspects of materiality must be recognised as interdependent upon social practice and social arrangements (Lievrouw, 2014). It is a complex issue, a full examination of which is beyond the scope of this article which seeks to specifically highlight the continuing role of materiality's forensic and formal influence in digital documents (for more detailed discussion, see Allen-Robertson, 2015).…”

Section: Documents As Materials Technologymentioning

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“…Furthermore, there has already been significant work headed by Lievrouw (2014) to connect these material-focussed approaches in Communication Studies with STS, where interest in materiality has seen resurgence with the Actor-Network Theory of Latour (2005) and the socially and materially aware concept of 'affordances' from Hutchby (2001). This confluence of the material-focussed strands of communications studies, with the broader study of technology as material and social constructs, reframe media as material technological systems that have a significant role in generating information through the confluence of their materiality and social use.…”

Section: Documents As Materials Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As not all interdependent factors can be addressed at once, this article uses Hutchby's (2001) concept of 'affordances', identified by Lievrouw (2014) as an effective balance in the classic STS technological versus social determinism debate, in order to speak of the material whilst retaining recognition of the social. Under Hutchby's framework, technology's role in society is recognised to be a product of both its material construction and its social use.…”

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Critically assessing digital documents: materiality and the interpretative role of software

Allen-Robertson

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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As a contribution to the ongoing tradition of critically assessing documents for research, this paper aims to highlight materiality as a key factor in the co-shaping of knowledge derived from digital documents. The paper first builds upon prior debates in document studies with work from the fields of Science and Technology Studies, and Communication Studies, to establish the role of document materiality in the interpretative process. By first establishing digital documents' material reality as electrical signal, the paper then discusses the interpretative role of software, in both the representation of that signal for human interpretation and the production of the document through software tools. Finally, the paper considers the implications for persistence and access to digital documents posed by their material reality and the private archival contexts in which they often reside. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…To paraphrase Livingstone's (2009) famous expression, everything is mediated. The mediated and the media mutually shape each other's conditions of production, understanding and use (Lievrouw, 2014) through a dialectic between a variety of actors, institutions and the environments that support them (Silverstone, 2005, p 189). With this complexity in mind, I follow Couldry in his definition of mediation as, capturing a variety of dynamics within media flows… flows of production, flows of circulation, flows of interpretation or reception, and flows of recirculation as interpretations flow back into production or flow outwards into general social and cultural life.…”

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Populist communication in the new media environment: a cross-regional comparative perspective

Sorensen

2018

Palgrave Commun

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The changing terms of mediation place new demands, opportunities and risks on the performance of the political persona. Visibility has become a double-edged sword, leaving representatives vulnerable to exposure while new tools provide opportunities for emerging entrepreneurial actors. This double risk to elites' mediated personas-exposure and challenge from entrepreneurs-renders their armour of authenticity dangerously fragile, which nourishes a public sense of being inefficaciously represented. It is this climate in which populism currently flourishes around the globe. Three primary criteria of mediated selfrepresentation by politicians-visibility, authenticity and efficacy-form the focus of this paper: how do populists negotiate such demands in different democratic contexts, and wherein lies the symbiosis between populism and the new media environment suggested by the literature? To answer this, the paper compares two populist cases responding to different democratic contexts: UKIP, a right-wing party from an established democracy (UK), and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a left-wing party from a transitional democracy (South Africa). The objects of study are disruptive performances by these parties, which are considered emblematic manifestations of populist ideology as they establish a Manichaean relationship between the elite and populist actors who embody the people. The paper introduces disruption as a multi-faceted and significant analytical concept to explain the populist behaviour and strategies that underlie populist parties' responses to the demands for visibility, authenticity and efficacy that the new media environment places upon political representatives. Using mixed methods with an interpretive focus, the paper paints a rich picture of the contexts, meanings and means of construction of populist performances.

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Materiality and Media in Communication and Technology Studies

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Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in datengetriebenen Zeiten

Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in datengetriebenen Zeiten

Critically assessing digital documents: materiality and the interpretative role of software

Populist communication in the new media environment: a cross-regional comparative perspective

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