The wireless spectrum the politics, practices, and poetics of mobile media /
The wireless spectrum the politics, practices, and poetics of mobile media /
edited by Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, and Kim Sawchuk.
- Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).
- 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages : illustrations)
- Digital futures .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Spectral genealogies. The circulatory turn / Mobile practices. Mobile publics and issues-based art and design / Locative media. Labours of location : acting in the pervasive media space / Wireless connections. The wireless commons manifesto ; Community wi-fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible / Kim Sawchuck, Barbara Crow, and Michael Longford -- Will Straw ; Radio hats, wireless rats, and flying families / Kim Sawchuk ; Atmospheres of communication / Jennifer Gabrys -- Anne Galloway ; The third screen as cultural form in North America / Judith A. Nicholson ; Intimate strangers : the keitai culture of "belonging-without-being-with" / Sandra Buckley ; Terminal city : art, information, and the augmenting of Vancouver / Darin Barney -- Minna Tarkka ; Spectrum policy as art : interview with Julian Priest / Barbara Crow ; Augmented urbanism : locative media experiences in the digital city / Kajin Goh, Michael Longford, and Barbara Crow -- Alison Powell ; The network we all dream of : manifest dreams of connectivity and communication or, social imaginaries of the wireless commons / Andrew Herman.
"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.
9781442698635
Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Communication and culture.
Electronic Books.
HM851 / .W574 2010
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Spectral genealogies. The circulatory turn / Mobile practices. Mobile publics and issues-based art and design / Locative media. Labours of location : acting in the pervasive media space / Wireless connections. The wireless commons manifesto ; Community wi-fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible / Kim Sawchuck, Barbara Crow, and Michael Longford -- Will Straw ; Radio hats, wireless rats, and flying families / Kim Sawchuk ; Atmospheres of communication / Jennifer Gabrys -- Anne Galloway ; The third screen as cultural form in North America / Judith A. Nicholson ; Intimate strangers : the keitai culture of "belonging-without-being-with" / Sandra Buckley ; Terminal city : art, information, and the augmenting of Vancouver / Darin Barney -- Minna Tarkka ; Spectrum policy as art : interview with Julian Priest / Barbara Crow ; Augmented urbanism : locative media experiences in the digital city / Kajin Goh, Michael Longford, and Barbara Crow -- Alison Powell ; The network we all dream of : manifest dreams of connectivity and communication or, social imaginaries of the wireless commons / Andrew Herman.
"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.
9781442698635
Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Communication and culture.
Electronic Books.
HM851 / .W574 2010