Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media /
De Vries, Imar O.,
Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media / Imar O. de Vries. - 1 online resource (214 pages) - MediaMatters series . - MediaMatters. .
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.
Open Access
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.
9789048514915 9048514916 9089643540 9789089643544
9789089643544 ebc870638
22573/ctt45sbgz JSTOR
Mass media.
Mobile communication systems.
Wireless communication systems.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Media studies.
COMPUTERS--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
Mass media.
Mobile communication systems.
Wireless communication systems.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P90 / .D4 2012eb
302.231
Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media / Imar O. de Vries. - 1 online resource (214 pages) - MediaMatters series . - MediaMatters. .
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.
Open Access
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.
9789048514915 9048514916 9089643540 9789089643544
9789089643544 ebc870638
22573/ctt45sbgz JSTOR
Mass media.
Mobile communication systems.
Wireless communication systems.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Media studies.
COMPUTERS--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
Mass media.
Mobile communication systems.
Wireless communication systems.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P90 / .D4 2012eb
302.231