Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media

• Tác giả: Imar de Vries
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9048514915
• ISBN-13: 978-9089643544
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 302.231 Digital media
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (214 pages.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 245890
• Chủ đề: 1. Mass media--Social aspects; 2. Mobile communication systems--Social aspects; 3. Wireless communication systems--Social aspects

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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.