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The Wireless Spectrum

The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media

edited by Barbara Crow, Michael Longford & Kim Sawchuk

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2010
Category
21st Century
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802098931
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $69.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442698635
    Publish Date
    Dec 2010
    List Price
    $60.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442698642
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $57.00

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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, transforming our experiences of space, time, and place, while reshaping our day-to-day interactions.

Bringing together visual artists, designers, activists, and communication and humanities scholars to reflect on mobile media, this collection engages a new terrain of interdisciplinary research. Interrogating these new forms of community and communication practices as they are emerging in Canada and around the world, the essays in The Wireless Spectrum ask how these new technologies transfigure subjectivities, creating new forms of social behaviour and provocative aesthetic practices.

About the authors

Barbara Crow is an associate professor in, and director of, the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University.

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Michael Longford is an associate professor in the Department of Design at York University.

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Kim Sawchuk is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.

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