Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty
Autor Pablo J. Boczkowskien Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197565759
ISBN-10: 0197565751
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197565751
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
[E]legantly written, erudite, and literary, while highly accessible and with the academese kept to a minimum. ... an ideal text to assign for undergraduate and graduate courses in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from journalism to international development studies, from sociology of news to history of communications.
What is information abundance? Not just cognitive overload but also a cultural transformation. New, yes, but not without historical continuities. This is a beautifully written book--critically aware of media's power to exploit but, also, cautiously optimistic about humanity's capacity to act.
Pablo Boczkowski, long an influential scholar of the U.S. media, has never forgotten the Argentina where he grew up. This important new book is a love letter to a country still in his heart and a plea for northern hemisphere scholars to keep the global south in view. Through rich interviews and a national survey, Boczkowski gives us the voices of Argentines from all walks of life and we hear in their own words of their pleasures with and criticisms of the media, their active engagement and sometimes intentional avoidance of media abundance. And in an age where commentary is transfixed by new media, he shows that television remains (as it largely does in the United States, too) the dominating source of most people's news and entertainment. Abundance is comprehensive but also distilled, the work of a fine mind—it's a landmark study.
If we've become fish, swimming in a sea of media, this book is a guide to life on the reef. It maps the currents of technological change, spots new species of media use, and reveals the ways that we and our media are co-evolving. A fascinating and important piece of work.
Boczkowski has written a must-read book for anyone interested in the reconstitution of sociality in the digital age. He offers a textured, granular analysis of how Argentines wrestle with information abundance. From the many lessons one should take away from this splendid book, the most important one is that sociality is not lost, but rather profoundly reshaped. Social impact is not embedded or solely determined by digital technologies, but rather, it results from the way technologies are intertwined with social and cultural traditions. Taking a ritualistic view of communication, Boczkowski warns us about assuming universal effects of information technology grounded in studies conducted in the Global North, and encourages us to open the analytical lens to a diversity of social experiences amid information abundance.
This is a wonderful book. Through beautifully rich interviews, Boczkowski brings to life the ways in which technology, and the unfathomable amount of information made available through these devices, is shaping our world. While the focus of the research is on Argentina, I found myself nodding along throughout, so relevant are the descriptions and insights. It feels like a delicious palate cleanser after years of scholarship focused entirely on US experiences.
What is information abundance? Not just cognitive overload but also a cultural transformation. New, yes, but not without historical continuities. This is a beautifully written book--critically aware of media's power to exploit but, also, cautiously optimistic about humanity's capacity to act.
Pablo Boczkowski, long an influential scholar of the U.S. media, has never forgotten the Argentina where he grew up. This important new book is a love letter to a country still in his heart and a plea for northern hemisphere scholars to keep the global south in view. Through rich interviews and a national survey, Boczkowski gives us the voices of Argentines from all walks of life and we hear in their own words of their pleasures with and criticisms of the media, their active engagement and sometimes intentional avoidance of media abundance. And in an age where commentary is transfixed by new media, he shows that television remains (as it largely does in the United States, too) the dominating source of most people's news and entertainment. Abundance is comprehensive but also distilled, the work of a fine mind—it's a landmark study.
If we've become fish, swimming in a sea of media, this book is a guide to life on the reef. It maps the currents of technological change, spots new species of media use, and reveals the ways that we and our media are co-evolving. A fascinating and important piece of work.
Boczkowski has written a must-read book for anyone interested in the reconstitution of sociality in the digital age. He offers a textured, granular analysis of how Argentines wrestle with information abundance. From the many lessons one should take away from this splendid book, the most important one is that sociality is not lost, but rather profoundly reshaped. Social impact is not embedded or solely determined by digital technologies, but rather, it results from the way technologies are intertwined with social and cultural traditions. Taking a ritualistic view of communication, Boczkowski warns us about assuming universal effects of information technology grounded in studies conducted in the Global North, and encourages us to open the analytical lens to a diversity of social experiences amid information abundance.
This is a wonderful book. Through beautifully rich interviews, Boczkowski brings to life the ways in which technology, and the unfathomable amount of information made available through these devices, is shaping our world. While the focus of the research is on Argentina, I found myself nodding along throughout, so relevant are the descriptions and insights. It feels like a delicious palate cleanser after years of scholarship focused entirely on US experiences.
Notă biografică
Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media, and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, both at Northwestern. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina, a joint initiative between Northwestern and Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires. He is the author or co-author of four books, four edited volumes, and over fifty journal articles.