The Internet of Things

Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-1745-9 (ISBN)

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More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'. In this accessible introduction, Graham Meikle and Mercedes Bunz observe its promises of convenience and the breaking of new frontiers in communication. They also raise urgent questions regarding ubiquitous surveillance and information security, as well as the transformation of intimate personal information into commercial data.

Discussing the internet of things from a media and communication perspective, this book is an important resource for courses analysing the internet and society, and essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the rapidly changing roles of our networked lives.

Graham Meikle is Professor of Communication and Digital Media at the University of Westminster. Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster.

Contents Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: First things

Chapter 2: Addressing things

Chapter 3: Speaking things

Chapter 4: Seeing things

Chapter 5: Tracking things

Chapter 6: Last things

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Digital Media and Society
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 213 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5095-1745-6 / 1509517456
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-1745-9 / 9781509517459
Zustand	Neuware