Making Media Futures (eBook, PDF)

Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations
Redaktion: Roth, Phillip H.; Böschen, Stefan; Olteanu, Alin; Olmos, Ana María Guzmán

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media. It will interest media studies, STS, history, philosophy, intersection of engineering, humanities and social sciences, sustainability, ethics, and responsible innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040351291
• Artikelnr.: 73682012

Autorenporträt

Phillip H. Roth is a Media Sociologist and Science Studies Scholar, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Ana María Guzmán Olmos is a Research Associate at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Alin Olteanu is Associate Professor of Semiotics, Multimodality and Media Technologies at Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Associate Researcher with Babe¿-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Stefan Böschen is Professor for Society and Technology, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, and spokesperson of the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Making Media Futures, or How Futures in the Mirror of Media May
be Closer than They appear
1. Introducing Imagination Technologies: Making Media Futures &
Future-Making Media
I. Imagination and Future Media: Theoretical Reflections
2. The Quantum Computer as a Medium of the Future: Imaginaries of Quantum
Computing in Alex Garland's Mini-Series Devs
3. Gilbert Simondon's Image Theory and Human-Technology Relations through
Imagination and AI Image-Generation
4. No (Media) Future: Queer Theory, Reproductive Futurism, and 5G
II. The Mediality of Imaginaries: Empirical Insights
5. Socio-technical imaginaries of the Internet of Things
6. Transmedia Strategies of Young Climate Activists: On the Communities
Constituting the Fridays for Future movement in Brazil
III. Social and Cultural Constructions of Media Imaginaries: Historical
Accounts
7. American Evangelicals and the Imaginary Realm on Radio, 1920-70
8. Reorganizing the Postwar Scientific Record: Vannevar Bush's Vision of
"Memex"
Index