The wireless spectrum : the politics, practices, and poetics of mobile media /

"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, transf...

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Other Authors: Sawchuk, Kim (Editor), Crow, Barbara A., 1960- (Editor), Longford, Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Series:Digital futures.
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Table of 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.