The Wireless Spectrum : : The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media / / ed. by Barbara Crow, Michael Longford, Kim Sawchuk.

• MitwirkendeR: Barney, Darin,; Buckley, Sandra,; Crow, Barbara,; Gabrys, Jennifer,; Galloway, Anne,; Goh, Kajin,; Herman, Andrew,; Longford, Michael,; Nicholson, Judith A.,; Powell, Alison,; Sawchuk, Kim,; Straw, Will,; Tarkka, Minna,
• HerausgeberIn: Crow, Barbara,; Longford, Michael,; Sawchuk, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part One. Spectral Genealogies -- 2. The Circulatory Turn -- 3. Radio Hats, Wireless Rats, and Flying Families -- 4. Atmospheres of Communication -- Part Two. Mobile Practices -- 5. Mobile Publics and Issues-Based Art and Design -- 6. The Third Screen as Cultural Form in North America -- 7. Intimate Strangers: The Keitai Culture of 'Belonging-without-being-with' -- 8. Terminal City? Art, Information, and the Augmenting of Vancouver -- Part Three. Locative Media -- 9. Labours of Location: Acting in the Pervasive Media Space -- 10. Spectrum Policy as Art: Interview with Julian Priest -- 11. Augmented Urbanism: Locative Media Experiences in the Digital City -- Part Four. Wireless Connections -- 12. The Wireless Commons Manifesto -- 13. Community Wi-Fi, Resistance, and Making Infrastructure Visible -- 14. 'The network we all dream of': Manifest Dreams of Connectivity and Communication or, Social Imaginaries of the Wireless Commons -- Bibliography -- Contributors