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Vries, Imar de, 1975-

Tantalisingly Close An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media / Imar O. de Vries. - 1 online resource (214 pages.) - MediaMatters . - MediaMatters. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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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.

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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.

ISBN: 9789048514915

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems--Social aspects.
Mass media--Social aspects.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P90 / .V758 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 302.231