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Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media / Imar O. de Vries.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: MediaMattersPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048514915
  • 9048514916
  • 9089643540
  • 9789089643544
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media.DDC classification:
  • 302.231
LOC classification:
  • P90 .D4 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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