Technological Forms and Ecological Communication: A Theoretical Heuristic

By Piyush Mathur

Investigating the phenomena of technology, science, technique, and mass communication, Piyush Mathur contends that the enterprise of science communication may be misleading vis- -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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498520472
• ISBN13: 9781498520478
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"