ISBN:
9780262320795
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (279 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Software studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The imaginary app
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Computers and civilization
;
Mobile computing Social aspects
;
Application software Social aspects
;
Application software ; Social aspects
;
Computers and civilization
;
Mobile computing ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Computer
;
Zivilisation
;
Mobile Computing
;
Soziologie
;
Anwendungssoftware
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Architectures -- 1 On Apps and Elementary Forms of Interfacial Life: Object, Image, Superimposition -- 2 Controlled Consumption Culture: When Digital Culture Becomes Software Business -- 3 The Philosophical Carpentry of the App: Criticism and Practice -- 4 Remote Control: Wolfram|Alpha and Machinic Protocol -- 5 The Path Is Math: On the Art and Science of Numbers -- II Prosthetics -- 6 Auxiliary Organs: An Ethics of the Extended Mind -- 7 Must We Burn Virilio? The App and the Human System -- 8 The App as an Extension of Man's Desires -- 9 "Text and Walk without Fear": Apps and the Experience of Transparency -- III Economics -- 10 App Worker -- 11 Dare et Capere: Virtuous Mesh and a Targeting Diagram -- 12 Construction of the App Economy in the Networked Korean Society -- 13 What China's Netizens Want: Building Tech Ecosystems in the World's Toughest Market -- IV Remediations -- 14 The Language of Media Software -- 15 Apps as "Charming Junkware"? -- 16 The Spinoza Lens-Grinder App -- 17 From the Digital to the Tentacular, or From iPods to Cephalopods: Apps, Traps, and Entrées-without-Exit -- 18 To Make You Completely Present in the Moment -- 19 Nonlinear Music Navigates the Earth -- Contributors -- Index -- Color Plates.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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