Piyush Mathur

Technological Forms and Ecological Communication (eBook, ePUB)

A Theoretical Heuristic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498520485
• Artikelnr.: 49207244

Autorenporträt

Piyush Mathur is an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & Communication
Chapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian Framework
Chapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The
Problematics of the Two Approaches
Chapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of
Pre- Fragmentation Termed Science
Chapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of
Science
Chapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual Reinforcement
The Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of Science
Chapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The
Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical Concept
Chapter 8: Science: A Basket Category
And why Science-Technology Differential Matters to Communication
Chapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of Technology
Chapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant Technologies
Chapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, &
Antiquated Technologies
Chapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative
Technologies
Chapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies;
Technologies of Polity; Communication Technologies
Chapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain Technologies
Chapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of Development
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author