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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vries, Imar de, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:MediaMatters.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wireless communication systems > Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Venturing into the familiar unknown; 1. Discourses of progress and utopia; 2. Communication ideals, communication woes
  • Part 2. Where angels speak; 3. The rise ... and rise of mediatechnology; 4. Mobile communication dreams.

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