Tantalisingly Close An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media / Imar O. de Vries.
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TextSeries: MediaMattersPublisher: Project Muse, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (214 pages.)ISBN: 9789048514915Subject(s): Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects | Mobile communication systems -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 302.231 LOC classification: P90 | .V758 2012Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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