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Author De Vries, Imar O., author.

Title Tantalisingly close : an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media / Imar O. de Vries.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
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Series MediaMatters series
MediaMatters.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 preoccupation with them in the first place. He constructs an expanded archaeological view of the development, marketing, and reception of communication technologies over the past 200 years, providing a comprehensive account of how persistent paradoxical desires for sublime communication have come to gi.
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Mass media.
Mobile communication systems.
Wireless communication systems.
Médias.
Radiocommunications mobiles.
Transmission sans fil.
mass media.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Media studies.
COMPUTERS -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Mass media
Mobile communication systems
Wireless communication systems
Other Form: Print version: De Vries, Imar. Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2012 9789089643544
ISBN 9789048514915 (electronic bk.)
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