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Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber

Crogan, Patrick; Weber, Samuel

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Authors

Patrick Crogan Patrick.Crogan@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Digital Cultures

Samuel Weber



Abstract

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as western thought but which assumes an increasingly pervasive character in the contemporary globalizing political and technocultural milieu. Mainstream and emerging representational and communications media are considered in this perspective for both their tendency to proliferate target thinking (Broadcast TV news, military management of the Gulf War campaign) and their potential to open other modes of being engaged. The predominant forms and ideas of the network (the internet, gamer networks, creative networks) are examined as particular kinds of netting and working that constrain and yet retain some of these other modes of intersubjectivity. Copyright © 2008 Sage Publications.

Citation

Crogan, P., & Weber, S. (2008). Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber. Convergence, 14(4), 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856508094658

Journal Article Type Short Survey
Publication Date Dec 1, 2008
Deposit Date Jul 6, 2010
Publicly Available Date Nov 15, 2016
Journal Convergence
Print ISSN 1354-8565
Electronic ISSN 1748-7382
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 14
Issue 4
Pages 375-385
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856508094658
Keywords mediation, network, subjectivity, target, terror, television
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1007551
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856508094658
Related Public URLs http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201774

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