{"product_id":"life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-paperback","title":"Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Kember\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoanna Zylinska\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782394970400,"sku":"9780262527460","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e3376c4b35b2512e359c64b7ce9bf838.webp?v=1780569661","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/life-after-new-media-mediation-as-a-vital-process-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}