{"product_id":"miscommunications-timothy-barker-9781501363856","title":"Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media","description":"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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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, \u003ci\u003eMiscommunications\u003c\/i\u003eshows 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Barker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501363859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501363856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"Timothy Barker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943215235327,"sku":"9781501363856","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_dbdfdc15-b1b3-4165-a94e-c23c60cc723c.jpg?v=1681496861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/miscommunications-timothy-barker-9781501363856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}