Mutative Media: Communication Technologies And Power Relations In The Past, Present, And Futures (lecture Notes In Social Networks)

__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 emergence of human language and speech that has enabled humans to extend their organizing abilities beyond that of other hominids. We then review research on the emergence of signs, symbols, and eventually writing, which led to new ways of thinking, acting, and organizing in scribal societies and vastly extended human influence globally. We consider the impact of the printing press in Europe, the Middle East, China, and Korea that led to various ways of thinking and organizing in modern societies, and conclude our historical survey with a discussion of the emergence and impact of electric and electronic communication technologies from the nineteenth century to the present. After a brief overview of what “futures studies” is and is not, based on our extensive experience in the field, we present four generic alternative futures, and discuss a prototype of a hybrid, mixed-reality game designed to enable players to experience the power and potential of new communication technologies within four very different environments and conditions. We think you will be intrigued by our surprising findings and what they may mean for future generations! 4.1.5 Networked Resistance and Control in the Twenty-First Century4.2 The Arab Spring, Occupy, and Others: Social Media and Revolution; 4.2.1 Amorphous Resistance: Anonymous; 4.2.2 The Myth of the "Wireless" World; 4.2.3 Control: Crock Pots and Child Porn; 4.2.4 Impacts of Electronic Technologies on Thinking and Being ; References; Chapter 5: Alternative Futures at the Mānoa School; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Seven Driving Forces Matrix; 5.3 The Unholy Trinity, Plus One; 5.4 Emerging Issues Analysis; 5.4.1 The Life Cycle of an Emerging Issue; 5.5 Some Horizon Scan Hits, Circa 2012-2014 3.7 Age-Cohort Analysis and Technological/Social Change3.7.1 Agricultural era Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Still Persist in the United States; 3.7.2 Industrial Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Linger; 3.7.3 Information Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Shape Lives ; References; Chapter 4: Communication Technology in the Extended Present and Futures; 4.1 What's Next?; 4.1.1 Life in "Real Time": Temporality and Visibility in the Internet Age; 4.1.2 Access and Points of Control; 4.1.3 Ubiquitous Society: Surveillance Society; 4.1.4 From Al Capone to Al Gore to Al Gorithm Preface; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Technology, Communication, Power, Society, and Change; 1.1 Introductory Concepts; 1.2 What Is "Technology"?; 1.3 Three Views of "Technology," Plus One; 1.4 Three Kinds of Technology: Physical, Biological, and Social; 1.5 Three Aspects of Technology: Hardware, Software, and Orgware; 1.6 Six Phases of the Technological Life-Cycle; 1.7 The Scope of Technology: Single Technologies, Clusters of Technologies, Levels of Technologies; 1.8 Six Eras of Social Organization; 1.9 Technology, Social Change, and Age-Cohort/Generational Analysis 1.10 Perspectives on Power and Technology1.11 What Is Communication?; 1.12 What Is "Society" and What Is "Social Change"?; 1.13 But Does Society Change? What Is Change and What Is Stability?; 1.14 What Is "Cause"?; References; Chapter 2: Communication Technologies and Power Relations in Five Historical Periods; 2.1 Language, Speech, and Power; 2.2 Governance and Power in Oral Societies; 2.3 Governance and Power in Scribal Societies: Tallies, Tokens, and Thought; 2.3.1 The Emergence of Writing and the Transformation of Oral Societies; 2.3.2 A Note on Women, Literacy, and Power 2.3.3 A Note on the Korean Alphabet and the Redistribution of Power2.4 The Printing Press, Governance, and Power; 2.4.1 Printing, Power, and Islam; 2.4.2 Note on Printing in China and Korea; 2.4.3 The Printing Press, Constitutionalism, and Logo Fundamentalism; References; Chapter 3: Communication Technologies and Power Relations, from Electricity to Electronics; 3.1 Electronic Communications and Power Relations; 3.2 From Electricity to Electronics; 3.3 Moving Pictures; 3.4 Computers; 3.5 The End of Authority?; 3.6 Which Medium Gave the Biggest Massage? Technology, Communication, Power, Society, and Change -- Communication Technologies and Power Relations in Five Historical Periods -- Communication Technologies and Power Relations, from Electricity to Electronics -- Communication Technology in the Extended Present and Futures -- Alternative Futures at the Manoa School -- Gaming Futures -- Mutatis Mutandis -- Appendix: Results from Gaming Futures.