| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
MediaMatters series
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MediaMatters.
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| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Mass media.
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Mass media. |
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Mobile communication systems.
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Mobile communication systems. |
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Wireless communication systems.
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Wireless communication systems. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| 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 book) |
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9048514916 (electronic book) |
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9089643540 |
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9789089643544 |
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9789089643544 |
| Standard No. |
9789089643544 |
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ebc870638 |
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