Traffic media as infrastructures and cultural practices - Näser-Lather, Marion 1977- (Brill Rodopi, 2015)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Marion Naser-Lather and Christoph Neubert -- Theorizing Traffic. Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture / John Durham Peters -- Traffic as 'Dirt Experience': Harold Innis's Tracing of Media / Gabriele Schabacher -- Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory / Jana Mangold -- Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? / Hartmut Winkler -- Traffic of Concepts. Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality / Grant David Bollmer -- Dewey's Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication / Norm Friesen -- McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism / Richard Cavell -- Contents. Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions / Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat -- Time, Space, and Power. Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther / Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz -- Nomads of the Technical Sublime / Peter Krapp -- Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance / Wolfgang Suetzl -- Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel / Wolf-Dieter Ernst
Keywords: Mass media; Communication; Mass media and culture; Massenmedien; Kommunikation; Kultur; Technische Infrastruktur; Konferenzschrift -- 2012 -- Padeborn