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...

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