The wireless spectrum : the politics, practices, and poetics of mobile media / edited by Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, and Kim Sawchuk.

Other author Sawchuk, Kim.
Other author Crow, Barbara A.
Other author Longford, Michael.
Format Book
Publication InfoToronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Descriptionvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesDigital futures
Digital futures. ^A606806
Contents Introduction / Kim Sawchuck, Barbara Crow, and Michael Longford -- Spectral genealogies. The circulatory turn / Will Straw ; Radio hats, wireless rats, and flying families / Kim Sawchuk ; Atmospheres of communication / Jennifer Gabrys -- Mobile practices. Mobile publics and issues-based art and design / 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 -- Locative media. Labours of location : acting in the pervasive media space / 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 -- Wireless connections. The wireless commons manifesto ; Community wi-fi, resistance, and making infrastructure visible / Alison Powell ; The network we all dream of : manifest dreams of connectivity and communication or, social imaginaries of the wireless commons / Andrew Herman.
Abstract "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.
Abstract Bringing together visual artists, designers, activists, and communication and humanities scholars to reflect on mobile media, this collection engages a new terrain of interdisciplinary research. Interrogating these new forms of community and communication practices as they are emerging in Canada and around the world, the essays in The Wireless Spectrum ask how these new technologies transfigure subjectivities, creating new forms of social behaviour and provocative aesthetic practices."--pub. desc.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-222).
ISBN9780802098931
ISBN0802098932

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HM851 .W57 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold