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

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Larissa Hjorth Jean Burgess

Studying Mobile Media

Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

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English

Routledge
02 February 2012

Material culture; Media studies; Mobile phone technology

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

"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 change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implications for future scholarship. Through the lens of the iPhone--as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media--the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century."

Edited by: Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 39
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780415895347
ISBN 10: 0415895340
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 February 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Larissa Hjorth is Senior Lecturer in the Games Programs at RMIT University. Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Ingrid Richardson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Technologies and Media at Murdoch University, Western Australia.

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

"""Through a review of theories past and present, as well as various case studies into already visible change, this book lays a foundation for further scholarship in mobile media and sociotechnical query in general. Because of its focus on the iPhone as a context, the text has a grounding and certain familiarity that will likely give it wide appeal."" -- Zack O'Leary, University of Edinburgh, review in First Monday"