Technological Forms and Ecological Communication

A Theoretical Heuristic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology—if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, though, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-09-25
Mått158 x 238 x 28 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor316
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498520478

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ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceList of FiguresChapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & CommunicationChapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian FrameworkChapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two ApproachesChapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed ScienceChapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of ScienceChapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual ReinforcementThe Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of ScienceChapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical ConceptChapter 8: Science: A Basket CategoryAnd why Science-Technology Differential Matters to CommunicationChapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of TechnologyChapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant TechnologiesChapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated TechnologiesChapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative TechnologiesChapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication TechnologiesChapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain TechnologiesChapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of DevelopmentChapter 16: Conclusion BibliographyAbout the Author

Mathur’s classifications can serve as the basis of further investigation into the relationship between mass communication, technologies, and ecology and stimulate the intellectual development of the field of eco-communication. Readers will do well by keeping some technologies of interest in mind as they follow the chronicles. On the whole, Technological Forms constitutes a substantial resource for communication scholars, philosophers of technology, those engaged in environmental studies and development studies as well as historians and philosophers of science.