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Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media /

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 gad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vries, Imar de, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:MediaMatters.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048514915
Acceso:Open Access