Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media / Imar O. de Vries.
Material type: TextSeries: MediaMattersPublication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9048514916
- 9089643540
- 9789048514915
- 9789089643544
- Mass media
- Mobile communication systems
- Wireless communication systems
- Archaeology
- Social Science -- Archaeology
- Technology & Engineering -- Mobile & Wireless Communications
- Wireless Communication Systems
- COMPUTERS -- General
- Mass media
- Media studies
- Mobile communication systems
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- Society and culture: general
- Society and social sciences
- Wireless communication systems
- 302.231
- P90 .D4 2012eb
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E-books | Hugenote College Main Campus | Digital version | Not for loan | Only accessible on campus. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
A number of recent studies of mobile wireless communication devices focus on use values, social implications, changing norms and ethics, conversation strategies and culture-dependent domestication. De Vries proposes to venture into a more historical and comparative direction to shed light on our preoccupation with them in the first place. He constructs an expanded archaeological view of the development, marketing, and reception of communication technologies over the past 200 years, providing a comprehensive account of how persistent paradoxical desires for sublime communication have come to gi.
English.
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