Theories of the mobile internet : materialities and imaginaries /
"This volume proposes the mobile Internet is best understood as a socio-technical "assemblage" of objects, practices, symbolic representations, experiences and affects. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss practices mediated through mobile communication, including current pho...
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2014.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Theories of the Mobile Internet: Mobilities, Assemblages, Materialities, and Imaginaries / Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, and Thomas Swiss
- Part I: The Politics of Mobility and Immobility
- 1. "We Shall Not Be Moved:" On the Politics of Immobility / Darin Barney
- 2. Openness and Enclosure in Mobile Internet Architecture / Alison Powell
- 3. The Materiality of Locative Media: On the Invisible Structure of Mobile Networks / Jason Farman
- 4. Labours of Mobility: Communicative Capitalism and the Smartphone Cybertariat / Enda Brophy and Greig de Peuter
- Part II: Mobile Pasts and Futures
- 5. Wireless Pasts and Wired Futures / Ghislain Thibault
- 6. The Rise, Fall and Future of BlackBerry ™ Capitalism / Andrew Herman and Vincent Manzerolle
- 7. Mobile Web 2.0: New Imaginaries of Mobile Internet / Gerard Goggin
- 8. Towards a Future Archaeology of Mobile Telecoms / Laura Watts
- Part III: Living Mobile Lives
- 9. The Mobile Phone (and Texts) as a Taken for Granted Mediation / Rich Ling
- 10. New and Old, Young and Old: Aging the Mobile Imaginary / Barbara Crow & Kim Sawchuk
- 11. "I’m Melvin, a 4G Hot Spot" / Thomas Swiss
- 12. A Hole in the Hand: Assemblages of Attention and Mobile Screens / J. Macgregor Wise
- 13. Apps and Drive / Jodi Dean.