In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects s...
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The stories we tell about the relationships between humans and their technological objects reveal a familiar narrative, according to Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska – one where technology is championed as advancing the human race, or demonised as the harbinger of its demise. In their bookLife After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process, the authors question the binary thinking that commonly frames debates around new media, and in doing so, propose a new approach to understanding techno-mediated environments and affiliations.