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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vries, Imar de, 1975- author.

Series:

MediaMatters.

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.

Wireless communication systems.

Mobile communication systems--Social aspects.

Mobile communication systems.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70490-5

1-04-079453-X

1-280-11825-3

9786613522542

90-485-1491-6

9781003704904

OCLC:

787844427