Integration and Ubiquity
Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence
Published on 23. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-3-85165-862-0 (ISBN)
Description
Mobile communications are rapidly merging with fixed-line telephony, the internet, and entertainment. Telecommunications convergence is a many-faceted process, creating radically novel and complex patterns of mediated culture, posing new challenges to the humanities.
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Kristóf Nyíri has published widely on the philosophy of communication, Wittgenstein, the philosophy of images, and the philosophy of time. He directs the interdisciplinary research programme Communications in the 21st Century, conducted jointly by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary.