Sublimity and Solutions: Problematization in ICT for Development Perspectives

Russill, Chris

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“…This notion can be summed up by the Foucauldian use of the term problematization. Such an approach in communications history and scholarship has to some degree been advanced in articles such as Russill (2008), Bratich (2005), and Packer (2006). 4.…”

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What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications and Media History

Packer

2010

The Communication Review

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The author argues for a new methodology for investigating the history of communications and media. Media and communications processes and technologies need to be examined as elements of apparatuses. The author examines the theoretical underpinnings of such an approach by first outlining Michel Foucault's writing on the topic and then investigating the recent use of the term by Giorgio Agamben. Taking an apparatus approach demands more broadly conceiving of the archive to include nonsignifying objects and material concerns. Such an approach is further elaborated through examples on the basis of Raymond Williams' seminal book Television: Technology and Cultural Form and the author's own research on automobility and Citizens Band Radio. The author concludes by offering 5 modes of enquiry to guide an apparatus approach to media and communications history.A new archivist has been appointed. But has anyone actually appointed him? Is he not rather acting on his own instructions? Certain malevolent people say that he is the new representative of a structural technology or technocracy. Others, mistaking their insults for wit, claim that he is a supporter of Hitler, or at least that he offends the rights of man (they will not forgive him for having proclaimed the "death of man"). Some say that he is a shammer who cannot back himself up with reference to sacred texts, and who seldom quotes the great philosophers. Others, though, claim that something new has appeared in philosophy, and that this work is as beautiful as those it challenges. It celebrates the dawn of a new age.

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What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications and Media History

Packer

2010

The Communication Review

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Africa's Information Revolution

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The Conditions of Media's Possibility

Packer¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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This chapter integrates Michel Foucault's historiographic approach with media history. After describing how Foucault's work has traditionally been used and understood by media historians, four areas of work are used as examples for establishing a more holistic account of the value of Foucault's archaeological and genealogical methods of historical enquiry. They are (1) the work of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler, (2) the Stanford School of the philosophy of science, (3) cultural studies work in governmentality studies, and (4) Giorgio Agamben's application of the Foucauldian concept apparatus. After providing eight questions for orienting Foucauldian historical investigation, the chapter explains how this leads to understanding the interrelated dimensions of power, knowledge, and subjectification as they intersect with the historical establishment of media forms, institutions, and technologies.

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Sublimity and Solutions: Problematization in ICT for Development Perspectives

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications and Media History

What is an Archive?: An Apparatus Model for Communications and Media History

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