Korolkova, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1784-3675 and Barker, Timothy (eds.) (2021) Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media. Thinking Media . Bloomsbury Academic, New York. ISSN 978-1501363856 (Print), 978-1501363832 (Online)

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Abstract

What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes and errors have a certain power, what stands behind it?

To address these questions, this collection assembles a range of cutting-edge philosophical, socio-political, art historical and media theoretical inquiries that address contemporary culture as a terrain of miscommunication. If the period since the industrial revolution can be thought of as marked by the realisation of the possibilities for global communication, in terms of the telephone, telegraph, television, and finally the internet, Miscommunications shows that to think about the contemporary historical moment, a new history and theory of these devices needs to be written, one which illustrates the emergence of the current cultures of miscommunication and the powers of the false.

The essays in the book chart the new conditions for discourse in the 21st century and collectively show how studies of communication can be refigured when we focus on the capacity for errors, accidents, mistakes, malfunctions and both intentional and non-intentional miscommunications.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Miscommunications, media, error, glitch, media theory, technology
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	20 Jan 2021 00:36
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/30931

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