{"product_id":"life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-9780262527460","title":"Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn argument for a shift in understanding new media--from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Life after New Media\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16610843\"\u003eSarah Kember\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16601141\"\u003eJoanna Zylinska\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262527460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262527464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC052000\"\u003eMedia Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TEC\"\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Engineering\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TEC052000\"\u003eSocial Aspects\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eThe Optical Effects of Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBioethics in the Age of New Media\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor (with Sarah Kember) of \u003ci\u003eLife After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the MIT Press.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44579397763309,"sku":"9780262527460","price":66.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_17b04037-63d7-49a1-8e8c-f790cde590e9.jpg?v=1702060398","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-9780262527460","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}