Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life
Ethnographic Approaches
Series: Intersections in Communications and Culture; 25;
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Product details:
- Edition number Neuausg., New edition
- Publisher Peter Lang
- Date of Publication 1 January 2009
- ISBN 9781433103025
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 19x160x230 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.
?This exciting new collection of essays brings together writing by sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural and media analysts around the core theme of the materiality of everyday life. A variety of perspectives including those of technology, actor-network theory, and phenomenology are brought to bear on a range of different material stuffs that feature in ordinary lives such as screens, cars, gardens, mobile phones, and music recorders. This is a thought-provoking book that will provide inspiration and ideas for all researchers and students who are interested in the social consequences of the things that surround us.? (Tim Dant, Reader in Sociology, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Table of Contents:
Contents: Eugene Halton: Preface - Phillip Vannini: Introduction - Phillip Vannini: Material Culture Studies and the Sociology and Anthropology of Technology - Grant Kein: Actor-Network Theory: Translation as Material Culture - Trevor Pinch: The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT): The Old, the New, and the Nonhuman - Ian Woodward: Material Culture and Narrative: Fusing Myth, Materiality, and Meaning - Phillip Vannini: Material Culture and Technoculture as Interaction - Mélanie Roustan: From Embodied Ethnography to the Anthropology of Material Culture: Gaming in the Field - Chaim Noy: On Driving a Car and Being a Family: An Autoethnography - Dylan Tutt/Jon Hindmarsh: The Screen Deconstructed: Video-Based Studies of the Malleable Screen - Tanfer Emin Tunc: Technologies of Consumption: The Social Semiotics of Turkish Shopping Malls - Ingrid Richardson/Amanda Third: Cultural Phenomenology and the Material Culture of Mobile Media - Ariane Hanemaayer: A Grounded Theory Approach to Engaging Technology on the Paintball Field - Chris Tilley: What Gardens Mean - Bryce Merrill: Making It, Not Making It: Creating Music in Everyday Life - Patrick Laviolette: The Death of the Clinic: Domestic Medical Sensoring - Tina Peterson: The Zapper and the Zapped: Microwave Ovens and the People Who Use Them.
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