Full Description
Making Media Theory is about the study, practice, and hands-on design of media theory. It looks at experimental research methods and engages in media analysis, inviting readers to respond to and shape the materiality of media while carefully considering the implications of living in a technoculture. The author walks readers through the creation of digital objects to think with, where critical design practices serve as tools for exploring social and philosophical issues related to technological being and becoming.
Contents
1. Making, Media, and Theory
2. Workshop: Conductive Play Dough
3. In Defence of Uselessness
4. Workshop: Useless Box
5. Writing with a Soldering Iron
6. Workshop: Smartphone Basket
7. Designing Technological Comportment: Wearables, Digital Rituals, and Non-Users
8. Workshop: Resistor Case
Epilogue: Dirty Media
Bibliography
Index
