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Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures
Rahul Mukherjee
其他書名
A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India
出版University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
ISBN13212025719781321202571
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XlCKAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A technoscience public consisting of--scientists, activists, policy-makers, and affected patients--that gathers around a disruptive technology, such as a nuclear reactor or cell tower antennae, cannot be materialized or imagined without the circulation of discourses through the process of mediation. Thus, technoscience publics and media publics intersect and reconfigure each other, and in each chapter, I trace the different unfolding debates by tracking the dynamic reconfigurations of the "mediated technoscience publics." Through an elaboration of the concept "mediated technoscience publics" my dissertation provides both a theoretical vocabulary and a methodological approach to study media and technoscience/environmental debates together. I emerge with notions of media that at once retain the specificity of a particular media format like a talk show or a media object like a cell phone, and yet are not tied to any one of them. I conceptualize media landscapes as circulatory systems of signs and signals, discourses and matter, representations and resonances. My approach emphasizes close examination of media practices (Ursula Rao, Brian Larkin) and performative mediation (Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska) to theorize the materiality of scientific knowledge production and publics (Karen Barad, Alexander Kluge, Jane Bennett).