Steps toward cosmopolitanism in the study of media technologies
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Boczkowski, Pablo Javier
Siles González, Ignacio
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Abstract
Most scholarship on media technologies can be organized along two main dimensions of
inquiry: the production or consumption of these technologies, and their content or material
dimensions. This map of the field of inquiry would produce four specific research areas: the
production of content, the consumption of content, the production of materiality, and the
consumption of materiality. Despite their respective contributions, these silos have also
resulted in important scholarly limitations. Thus, in this paper, we consider the intellectual
opportunities that arise from reevaluating these traditions through the lens of
cosmopolitanism, which promotes the crossing of scholarly territories in the study of media
technologies in order to rethink assumptions and taken-for-granted processes. We propose
some steps toward cosmopolitanism in the study of media technologies by elaborating on
the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and design implications of conducting research
at the intersection of these four areas.
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Consumption, Content, Cosmopolitanism, Media technologies, Materiality, Production
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2013.808358