
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Public defence | 2017-09-08 |
Time | 13:00 |
Location | Hörsal C (C0E11), Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö Högskola |
Faculty examiner | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University |
Publication | Doctoral Thesis Doctoral Thesis, monograph |
Title | Executions : power and expression in networked and computational media |
Author | |
Date | 2017 |
English abstract | |
This research looks at questions of power and expression as they are composed in various ways within networked and computationally-informed situations of the present. Drawing from the term as it is originally invoked in practices of computing, the research puts forward execution as a central conceptual framework for its investigations. In a computer program, a program becomes executable when it is able to execute a set of procedures within a designated set of relations and affordances. Similarly, the concept of execution developed here looks at the ongoing negotiations of various formative relations and affordances (technical, cultural, material, political) in practices of execution, describing certain notable techniques applied towards the task of making things executable. The examples looked at include several dominant media and technology practices of the present, as well as several alternative practices that point to other possible modes of execution. In doing so, the research highlights certain politically-orientated issues involved in questions of execution, working to further develop specific approaches aimed at describing, questioning and intervening into practices of execution as they occur in the world. | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.24834/2043/22834 (link to publisher's fulltext.) |
Publisher | Malmö university |
Series/Issue | Dissertation Series in New Media, Public Spheres, and Forms of Expression;11 |
ISBN | 9789171045065 9789171045072 |
Language | eng (iso) |
Subject | media studies media and communications software studies execution Technology Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2043/22834 Permalink to this page |
Link to publication in DiVA | Find this research publication in DiVA. |
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