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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Beteilige Person: De Vries, Imar (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2012]
Schriftenreihe:MediaMatters
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514915
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
Umfang:1 online resource 15 halftones
ISBN:9789048514915
DOI:10.1515/9789048514915