Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

by Larissa Hjorth

Book Overview

The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone's particular characteristics, uses and "affects," but also how the "iPhone moment" functions as a barometer for broader patterns of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415895340
• ISBN13: 9780415895347
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"