
The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
University of Toronto Press
Published on 18. June 2010
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8020-9893-1 (ISBN)
Description
As evidenced by the clientele in any urban coffee shop, devices such as cell phones, BlackBerries, and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops have proliferated, particularly during the past ten years. The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming our experiences of space, time, and place, while reshaping our day-to-day interactions.
Bringing together visual artists, designers, activists, and communication and humanities scholars to reflect on mobile media, this collection engages a new terrain of interdisciplinary research. Interrogating these new forms of community and communication practices as they are emerging in Canada and around the world, the essays in The Wireless Spectrum ask how these new technologies transfigure subjectivities, creating new forms of social behaviour and provocative aesthetic practices.
Bringing together visual artists, designers, activists, and communication and humanities scholars to reflect on mobile media, this collection engages a new terrain of interdisciplinary research. Interrogating these new forms of community and communication practices as they are emerging in Canada and around the world, the essays in The Wireless Spectrum ask how these new technologies transfigure subjectivities, creating new forms of social behaviour and provocative aesthetic practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9893-1 (9780802098931)
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Barbara Crow | Michael Longford | Kim Sawchuk
The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
E-Book
12/2010
1st Edition
University of Toronto Press
€58.95
Available for download
Persons
Barbara Crow is an associate professor in, and director of, the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University.
Michael Longford is an associate professor in the Department of Design at York University.
Kim Sawchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.
Michael Longford is an associate professor in the Department of Design at York University.
Kim Sawchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.