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Book review: Rachel Barr and Deborah Nichols Linebarger (Eds.), Media exposure during infancy and early childhood: The effects of content and context on learning and development
Mobile Media & Communication ( IF 3.859 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-20 , DOI: 10.1177/2050157919883065b
Andra Siibak 1
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The first part focuses on the theoretical and conceptual framing of the role of material and virtual dimensions of transport and communication technologies in mobilising communities. It elucidates how the entanglement of material and communicative infrastructures, political systems, and economic processes has shaped the formation of empires, nations, and regions in Europe. The second section unravels the various modes of entwined geographical and virtual mobilities, foregrounding Morley’s point that “online and offline realms are mutually constitutive” (p. 102). It also emphasises the need to take into consideration the continuities of media technologies in understanding the affordances and adoption of new media channels. The last section showcases the case studies or the “emblematic of our era” (p. 8), including the migrant, the mobile phone, and the container box. A common thread running through the case studies is the interlocking of virtual mobility and control. Drawing upon an extensive review of scholarly work on migration, transport studies, geography, media and communications, and mobilities, the book presents a balanced discussion of the double-edged impacts of virtual connectivity on sociality, subjectivity, community formation, and place making. As presented, virtual connections organise and connect the flows of goods, people, capitals, and information in a mobile society. Yet, they also stir asymmetries, ruptures, and exclusion. It is through this point that Morley highlights how place-based infrastructures and social structures often produce a layered and stratified mediated connection. As Morley notes, “pre-existing cultural logics serve to inform, amplify, and inflect the adoption and contemporary uses of these technologies” (p. 181). One of the salient features of the book is that it invites the readers to examine virtual connectivity beyond a EurAmcentric frame. In the first instance, Morley maps out some case studies to unearth how non-Western countries have adopted media and communications technologies. He then highlights the narratives and critical insights that can be obtained through a cross-cultural analysis of mediated communication in a local, transnational, and global sphere. Importantly, Morley encourages scholars and researchers to be more critical in creating metaphors to describe the conditions enabled by the use of media and communication technologies. This proposition is supported by deploying a nonmedia-centric and contextualist approach. In sum, this book delivers a rich and nuanced illumination of the impact of the inseparable material and virtual dimensions of media and communications in our contemporary world.

中文翻译:

书评:Rachel Barr 和 Deborah Nichols Linebarger(编辑),婴儿和幼儿期的媒体曝光:内容和环境对学习和发展的影响

第一部分侧重于交通和通信技术的物质和虚拟维度在动员社区中的作用的理论和概念框架。它阐明了物质和交流基础设施、政治体系和经济过程的纠缠如何塑造了欧洲帝国、国家和地区的形成。第二部分揭示了交织在一起的地理和虚拟移动的各种模式,突出了 Morley 的观点,即“在线和离线领域是相互构成的”(第 102 页)。它还强调在理解新媒体渠道的可供性和采用时需要考虑媒体技术的连续性。最后一部分展示了案例研究或“我们时代的象征”(第 8 页),包括移民、移动电话、和容器盒。贯穿案例研究的一个共同点是虚拟移动性和控制的联锁。该书对移民、交通研究、地理、媒体和通信以及流动性方面的学术工作进行了广泛回顾,对虚拟连通性对社会性、主体性、社区形成和场所营造的双刃影响进行了平衡的讨论。正如所介绍的,虚拟连接在移动社会中组织和连接商品、人员、资本和信息的流动。然而,它们也引发了不对称、破裂和排斥。正是通过这一点,莫利强调了基于地点的基础设施和社会结构如何经常产生分层和分层的中介联系。正如莫利指出的那样,“预先存在的文化逻辑有助于告知、放大、并影响这些技术的采用和当代使用”(第 181 页)。这本书的一个显着特点是它邀请读者在 EurAmcentric 框架之外检查虚拟连接。首先,莫利绘制了一些案例研究来揭示非西方国家如何采用媒体和通信技术。然后,他强调了通过对本地、跨国和全球范围内的中介传播进行跨文化分析可以获得的叙事和批判性见解。重要的是,莫利鼓励学者和研究人员在创造比喻来描述使用媒体和通信技术所带来的条件时更加批判。这一主张得到了部署非以媒体为中心和情境主义的方法的支持。总共,
更新日期:2019-12-20
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