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The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part One. Spectral Genealogies
- 2. The Circulatory Turn
- 3. Radio Hats, Wireless Rats, and Flying Families
- 4. Atmospheres of Communication
- Part Two. Mobile Practices
- 5. Mobile Publics and Issues-Based Art and Design
- 6. The Third Screen as Cultural Form in North America
- 7. Intimate Strangers: The Keitai Culture of ‘Belonging-without-being-with’
- 8. Terminal City? Art, Information, and the Augmenting of Vancouver
- Part Three. Locative Media
- 9. Labours of Location: Acting in the Pervasive Media Space
- 10. Spectrum Policy as Art: Interview with Julian Priest
- 11. Augmented Urbanism: Locative Media Experiences in the Digital City
- Part Four. Wireless Connections
- 12. The Wireless Commons Manifesto
- 13. Community Wi-Fi, Resistance, and Making Infrastructure Visible
- 14. ‘The network we all dream of’: Manifest Dreams of Connectivity and Communication or, Social Imaginaries of the Wireless Commons
- Bibliography
- Contributors