Global Mobile Media

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There are now over one and a half billion mobile phones used worldwide. Alongside phones, there are a range of other portable media devices widely used including analogue and digital radio receivers, portable music players (MP3 players and iPods), laptop computers, not to mention a wider field of mobile technologies, including wearable computers, positioning and sensing technologies, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices. Global Mobile Media sets out to integrate an understanding of the mobile media economy (political and cultural), with knowledge of mobile culture (new media forms, genres, audiences, and practices), and to articulate these with an account of the politics of mobiles (as they relate to questions of media and culture). In doing so, it successfully places new mobile media historically, socially, and culturally in a wider field of portable media technologies (radio receivers, television sets, music players, even newspapers and books).

Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles. Covering sight, sound and status, plus a host of other issues, he provides a provocative analysis of how mobile communication gadgets come to play such a prominent role in our lives. Any scholar of New Media will want to read this book - James Katz, Department of Communication, Rutgers University, USA

Auteur

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication in the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests focus on mobile media, Internet, disability, media history and policy. Previous publications include Internationalizing Internet Studies (2009), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (with Larissa Hjorth, 2009), Mobile Phone Cultures (2008), Mobile Media (with Larissa Hjorth, 2007), Cell Phone Culture (2006) and Digital Disability (2003).

Texte du rabat

There are now over one and a half billion mobile phones used worldwide. Alongside phones, there are a range of other portable media devices widely used including analogue and digital radio receivers, portable music players (MP3 players and iPods), laptop computers, not to mention a wider field of mobile technologies, including wearable computers, positioning and sensing technologies, and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices. Global Mobile Media sets out to integrate an understanding of the mobile media economy (political and cultural), with knowledge of mobile culture (new media forms, genres, audiences, and practices), and to articulate these with an account of the politics of mobiles (as they relate to questions of media and culture). In doing so, it successfully places new mobile media historically, socially, and culturally in a wider field of portable media technologies (radio receivers, television sets, music players, even newspapers and books).

Contenu

@contents: Selected Contents: List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Mobiles as global media Part I Mobiles and the New Media Economies Chapter 2. Power and mobile media: structures, networks, and control Chapter 3. Cultural economy of mobiles: new relations of production and consumption Part II Mobile Media Cultures Chapter 4. Mobile music: ringtones, music players, and the sound of everything Chapter 5. The mobile invention of television: post-broadcasting and audiovisual politics Chapter 6. Mobile gaming: playing the portable Chapter 7. Mobile Internet: new social technologies Part III Politics of Mobile Media Networks Chapter 8. The computer, the Internet, and the mobile: the case of the iPhone Chapter 9. The mobile commons? Open networked cultures beyond the politics of code Chapter 10. Conclusion: Culture garden for mobile media futures Notes Bibliography Index