TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Vries,Imar O.
TI  - Tantalisingly close: an archaeology of communication desires in discourses of mobile wireless media 
T2  - MediaMatters series
SN  - 9789048514915
AV  - P90 .D4 2012eb
U1  - 302.231 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Mobile communication systems
KW  - Wireless communication systems
KW  - Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Media studies
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Venturing into the familiar unknown; 1. Discourses of progress and utopia; 2. Communication ideals, communication woes -- Part 2. Where angels speak; 3. The rise ... and rise of mediatechnology; 4. Mobile communication dreams; Open Access
N2  - A number of recent studies of mobile wireless communication devices focus on use values, social implications, changing norms and ethics, conversation strategies and culture-dependent domestication. De Vries proposes to venture into a more historical and comparative direction to shed light on our preoccupation with them in the first place. He constructs an expanded archaeological view of the development, marketing, and reception of communication technologies over the past 200 years, providing a comprehensive account of how persistent paradoxical desires for sublime communication have come to gi
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