ISBN:
9089643540
,
9781280118258
,
9781280118258
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (214 p.))
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
MediaMatters series
Serie:
MediaMatters Ser v.7
Paralleltitel:
Druckausg.
DDC:
302.231
Schlagwort(e):
Mass media
;
Mobile communication systems
;
Wireless communication systems
;
Mass media
;
Mobile communication systems
;
Wireless communication systems
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
In this important new study, Imar de Vries take a historical and comparative approach in researching our intimate relationship with present-day mobile wireless technologies. By analyzing the full range of human expectations and behavior in regard to mobile devices, de Vries looks at how wireless gadgets have changed our ideas about communication, while at the same time he demonstrates how modern technology surprisingly repeats the patterns of older media. Applying a far-reaching and archaeological perspective to communication media, Tantalisingly Close looks at human desire to connect and the way that it has both shaped and been shaped by technology, past and present.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Venturing into the Familiar Unknown -- 1. Discourses of progress and utopia -- 2. Communication ideals, communication woes -- Part II. Where Angels Speak -- 3. The rise… and rise of media technology -- 4. Mobile communication dreams -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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