Format:
1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9089643540
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9048514916
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9789089643544
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9789048514915
Series Statement:
MediaMatters series
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089643544
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe De Vries, Imar Tantalisingly Close : An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2012 ISBN 9789089643544
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
http://www.tantalisinglyclose.com/data/Vries,%20Imar%20de%20-%20Tantalisingly%20Close%20(2012).pdf
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URL:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/e/resolver/id/2826425
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=870638
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