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Media Distortions is about the power behind the production of deviant media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media. The book synthesizes media theory, sound studies, science and technology studies (STS), feminist technoscience, and software studies into a new composition to explore media power. Media Distortions argues that using sound as a conceptual framework is more useful due to its ability to cross boundaries and strategically move between multiple spaces—which is essential for multi-layered mediated spaces. Drawing on repositories of legal, technical and archival sources, the book amplifies three stories about the construction and negotiation of the ‘deviant’ in media. The book starts in the early 20th century with Bell Telephone’s production of noise, tuning into the training of their telephone operators and their involvement with the Noise Abatement Commission in New York City. The next story jumps several decades to the early 2000s focusing on web metric standardization in the European Union and shows how the digital advertising industry constructed web-cookies as legitimate communication while making spam illegal. The final story focuses on the recent decade and the way Facebook filters out antisocial behaviors to engineer a sociality that produces more value. These stories show how deviant categories re-draw boundaries between human and non-human, public and private spaces, and importantly, social and antisocial.
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Sociology, Information technology, Social aspects, Mass media, Spam (Electronic mail), Noise, Abweichendes Verhalten, Content, Cookie, Definition, Facebook, Filter, Gesetzgebung, Internet, Kooperation, Lärmbelastung, Lärmschutz, Lobbyismus, Spam-Mail, Werbewirtschaft, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Europäische UnionEdition | Availability |
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Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
2020, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
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Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
2020, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
1433166933 9781433166938
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Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
2020, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
1433166941 9781433166945
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Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
2020, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
1433166917 9781433166914
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Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
2020, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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143316695X 9781433166952
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