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Historians of communication and media studies have never been very interested in
technology, but surely there is thinking about technology in media studies, even if it is
not often explicit. Consider the case of uses and gratifications research as developed by
Herta Herzog and later elaborated by Elihu Katz, which tended to regard psychological
and sociological variables as real and primary, and the media as a second-hand factor and
manifestation of those variables. Does this approach not contain the assumption that
media technologies are merely technical things used to accomplish certain ends? And
consequently, that these things are value-neutral—that technological objects do not play a
primary role in culture? Consider the case of Harold A. Innis: Does he deserve the
pejorative “technological determinist” for emphasizing that the specific technological
characteristics of a prevalent medium in a given society condition the social practices of
communication, institutions, and systems of social organization and power? Is it
plausible to think that certain technologies might themselves have political properties?
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Philosophy of technology History of media studies Technology Utopia Ideology
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Subtil, F. (2021). Can the history of communication and media research proceed without the philosophy of technology? History of Media Studies, 1. https://doi.org/10.32376/d895a0ea.dab6ca65
Editora
mediastudies.press