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Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis-à-vis technology—if in part because it frequently coextends with a flawed, but dominant, notion of science that presumptuously implicates technology anyway. Grappling with what authentically constitutes science and the prospective effects of its realization on a global future of mass communication, Mathur explores how various technological forms play specifically into ecologically sensitive mass communication. The result is an eco-communicative theory of technology that includes its classification based upon a set of qualitative principles and a profile of the notion of development. On the whole, though, Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic brings the fields of philosophy and history of science, philosophy and sociology of technology, communication studies, and development studies into conversation with one another.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Technology, Ecology, & Communication
Chapter 2: In Apprehending Technology, Bypass the Foucauldian Framework
Chapter 3: Science Defined in Terms of Object Versus Method of Study: The Problematics of the Two Approaches
Chapter 4: Diverse Objects, Diverse Subjects: An Inquest into a State of Pre- Fragmentation Termed Science
Chapter 5:The Argument Concerning the Christian-Religious Inception of Science
Chapter 6: Mystique & Domination: A Matter of Mutual Reinforcement
The Theological Substructure of the Dominant Notion of Science
Chapter 7: Some Terminological Revelations Through European History: The Invalidity of Science as a Theoretical Concept
Chapter 8: Science: A Basket Category
And why Science-Technology Differential Matters to Communication
Chapter 9: An Eco-Communicative Theory of Technology
Chapter 10: The Principle of Proximation: Proximate & Distant Technologies
Chapter 11: The Principle of Temporality: Newer, Older, Obsolete, & Antiquated Technologies
Chapter 12: The Principle of Concentration: Concentrative & Disseminative Technologies
Chapter 13: The Principle of Anthropocentrism: Meat Technologies; Technologies of Polity; Communication Technologies
Chapter 14: The Principle of Uncertainty: Uncertain Technologies
Chapter 15: The Unprincipled Case of the Technologies of Development
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Bibliography
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