Mutative Media Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures /

• Main Authors: Dator, James A. (Author), Sweeney, John A. (Author), Yee, Aubrey M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; Multimedia systems.; Mass media.; Communication.; Social sciences in mass media.; Social Sciences.; Communication Studies.; Media Design.; Media Sociology.; Political Science.

Mutative Media is a sweeping examination of how communication technologies have contributed to changes in people’s thoughts and actions, and thus in the power structures of societies, in the past, at present, and in four alternative futures. We start by surveying what is generally known about the em...