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  • Medical Technology and the Social

    How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal

    Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal explores the intersection of society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts our day-to-day lives. The contributors examine a variety of technologies and their impact on the social world, from older technologies such as the use of fax ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Bodies and Mobile Media

    Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily experience of the world.In Bodies and Mobile Media, Ingrid Richardson and Rowan Wilken explore mobile media as a lens through which to ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Everyday Data Cultures

    The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech companies or their critics would have us believe.From gig worker activism to wellness tracking with sex toys and TikTokers' ... Read more

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  • Wi-Fi

    Series series Digital Media and Society
    From café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and largely overlooked by researchers, this technology has driven the rise of the smartphone and broadband internet, and is a vital element in the next wave of automation.Thomas, Wilken, and Rennie provide the first ... Read more

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  • Digital Domesticity

    Media, Materiality, and Home Life

    At the turn of the twenty-first century, typical households were equipped with a landline telephone, a desktop computer connected to a dial-up modem, and a shared television set. Television, radio and newspapers were the dominant mass media. Today, homes are now network hubs for all manner of digital technologies, from mobile devices littering lounge rooms to Bluetooth toothbrushes in bathrooms- ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Cultural Economies of Locative Media

    by Rowan Wilken ...
    Series series Studies in Mobile Communication
    Location, location-awareness, and location data have all become familiar and increasingly significant parts of our everyday mobile-mediated experiences. Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the ways in which location-based services, such as GPS-enabled mobile smartphones, are socially, culturally, economically, and politically produced just as much as they are technically designed and ... Read more

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  • Automating Vision

    The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness

    Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies and digital ... Read more

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  • Location Technologies in International Context

    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do location technologies differ across national markets, geo-linguistic communities and ... Read more

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  • Afterlives of Georges Perec

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  • Mobile Technology and Place

    Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    An international roster of contributors come together in this comprehensive volume to examine the complex interactions between mobile media technologies and issues of place. Balancing philosophical reflection with empirical analysis, this book examines the specific contexts in which place and mobile technologies come into focus, intersect, and interact. Given the far-reaching impact of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Locative Media

    Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    Not only is locative media one of the fastest growing areas in digital technology, but questions of location and location-awareness are increasingly central to our contemporary engagements with online and mobile media, and indeed media and culture generally. This volume is a comprehensive account of the various location-based technologies, services, applications, and cultures, as media, with an ... Read more

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  • Teletechnologies, Place, and Community

    by Rowan Wilken ...
    Series series Comedia
    Teletechnologies, or technologies of distance, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the present electronic age is said to have wrought profound changes to how we think about and experience who we are, where we are, and how we relate with one another. Place and community have traditionally formed key concepts for thinking about these issues, but what relevance do these concepts now hold for us? In this wide ... Read more

    $54.99 USD