Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media / / Imar O. de Vries

• Autore: Vries Imar de <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020; ©2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.231
• Soggetto topico: Wireless communication systems - Social aspects; Mobile communication systems - Social aspects; Mass media - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tantalisingly Close
• ISBN: 1-280-11825-3; 9786613522542; 90-485-1491-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141349203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: MediaMatters.