Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media

Barker, T. and Korolkova, M. (Eds.) (2021) Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media. Series: Thinking media. Bloomsbury Academic: New York ; London. ISBN 9781501363856

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 Books
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Barker, Professor Timothy
• Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General); B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics; H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications; N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR; T Technology > TR Photography
• College/School: College of Arts > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Theatre Film and TV Studies
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• ISBN: 9781501363856