Finding Augusta : habits of mobility and governance in the digital era / Heidi Rae Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Heidi Rae, author.

Series:

Interfaces, studies in visual culture

Interfaces : studies in visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Psychological aspects.

Information technology.

Information technology--Health aspects.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Mobile communication systems--Psychological aspects.

Mobile communication systems.

Mobile communication systems--Health aspects.

Mobile communication systems--Social aspects.

Self--Social aspects.

Self.

Augustus (Motion picture).

Social aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 175 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2014]

Summary:

Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. Cooley explores how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective, problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introductionn : bodies, mobilities, technologies

Making tracks : Augusta app would like to use your location

In hand and on the go : design, neuroscience, and habits of perception handheld

"Location, location, location" : placing persons, accessing information, and expressing self

Secured mobilities : how to think about populations

Conclusion : an "aesthetics of existence," or habit-ing differently.

Notes:

Includes still images from the film The Augustas as an entry point into the discussion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611685213

1611685214

9781611685220

1611685222

OCLC:

857743799