Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media /

A number of recent studies of mobile wireless communication devices focus on use values, social implications, changing norms and ethics, conversation strategies and culture-dependent domestication. De Vries proposes to venture into a more historical and comparative direction to shed light on our pre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Vries, Imar O. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series:	MediaMatters.
Subjects:	Mass media. Mobile communication systems. Wireless communication systems. Society and social sciences. Society and culture: general. Media studies. COMPUTERS > General. PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.