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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying Mobile Media Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone; Copyright; Contents; 1 Studying the Mobile: Locating the Field; PART I iPhone as a Cultural Moment; 2 The iPhone and Communication; 3 The iPhone Moment, the Apple Brand, and the Creative Consumer: From "Hackability and Usability" to Cultural Generativity; 4 Ambient Intimacy: A Case Study of the iPhone, Presence, and Location-based Social Networking in Shanghai, China; 5 "In Bed with the iPhone": The iPhone and Hypersociality in Korea; PART II iPhone as a Platform and Phenomenon.
  • 6 iPhone Photography: Mediating Visions of Social Space7 Between Image and Information: The iPhone Camera in the History of Photography; 8 A Logic of Layers: Indexicality of iPhone Navigation in Augmented Reality; 9 Touching the Screen: A Phenomenology of Mobile Gaming and the iPhone; PART III iPhone and Labor; 10 The iPhone as Innovation Platform: Reimagining the Videogames Developer; 11 Network Labor: Beyond the Shadow of Foxconn; 12 iPersonal: A Case Study of the Politics of the Personal.
  • 13 Four Ways of Listening with an iPhone: From Sound and Network Listening to Biometric Data and Geolocative Tracking14 How a University Domesticated the iPhone; Contributors; Index.