Studying Mobile Media : Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the IPhone.

Studying Mobile Media : Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the IPhone.

The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not...

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Main Author: Hjorth, Larissa
Other Authors: Burgess, Jean, Richardson, Ingrid
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
Subjects:
Communication and culture > Technological innovations.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication > Technological innovations > Social aspects.
iPhone (Smartphone)
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone's particular characteristics, uses and ""affects, "" but also how the ""iPhone moment"" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implicatio.
Physical Description:1 online resource (257 pages).
ISBN:9780203127711
0203127714
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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