Mobile Screens
The Visual Regime of Navigation
Published on 1. October 2025
212 pages
978-1-040-78560-7 (ISBN)
Description
As far as interaction with screens is concerned, the given technology of particular interactive devices entails an ambiguous status of screens: what is shown on the screen has to do with how one interacts with it, that is, we can almost literally see what we are doing. This study is devoted to a theoretical exploration of intersections between mobility and visuality from a historical-comparative perspective, addressing the mobility of visual experience and the screen-based access to such experiences in a range of case studies.The author develops the concept through five chapters and analyzes a variety of contemporary screen technologies and the cultural practices involving these screen-based configurations - the ways in which we engage with screens as interfaces with spatial, temporal, and haptic experiences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
32,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-78560-7 (9781040785607)
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03/2012
Pallas Publications
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Person
Nanna Verhoeff is Professor of Screen Cultures and Society in the Department of Media and Culture Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University. She dedicates her research both to the comparative study of screen media, and to the development of methods and concepts for the creative humanities. Previous publications include The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning and Mobile Screens: The Visual Regime of Navigation - both published with Amsterdam University Press. This current book on urban screens completes this trilogy, which proposes methods and concepts for comparing and analyzing screen media across times and places.
Content
Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Introduction, 1. Panoramic Complex, 2. Self-Reflection, 3. Theoretical Consoles, 4. Urban Screens, 5. Performative Cartography, Epilogue: You Are Here! Notes, Bibliography, Index of Names and Titles, Index of Terms.
