Imar Vries
1) Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In this important new study, Imar de Vries take a historical and comparative approach in researching our intimate relationship with present-day mobile wireless technologies. By analyzing the full range of human expectations and behavior in regard to mobile devices, de Vries looks at how wireless gadgets have changed our ideas about communication, while at the same time he demonstrates how modern technology surprisingly repeats the patterns of older...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies. With the emergence of digital and mobile technologies our conceptions and hopes of what citizen participation entails have changed profoundly. Interactive, networked and affordable technologies have transformed the relationship between knowledge, creativity and power. Citizens use media technologies in playful...