Bodies and Mobile Media (eBook)

Ingrid Richardson, Rowan Wilken (Autoren)

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2023
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6080-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 understand how embodiment both shapes, and is shaped by, media experience. It offers a unique approach by focusing on specific sensory affordances and body parts including the eyes, ears, face, hands and feet to consider the uneven ratios of sensory perception at work in our engagement with mobile devices. Each chapter provides rich and accessible narratives of mobile media practices interwoven with current scholarship in media studies and phenomenology, with a concluding chapter that reflects on mobile media use as a synesthetic experience. By interpreting theoretical insights about the relationship between the body and technology, the book serves as an important work of knowledge translation. This work is crucial, the authors argue, if we are to critically understand how our perception and experience of the world are mediated by technology. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies.

Autor

Ingrid Richardson is Professor in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Rowan Wilken is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at RMIT University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Face

2. Eyes

3. Ears

4. Hands

5. Feet

Conclusion

References

Index

Rezensionen

"This fantastic book provides a wealth of knowledge about the body's intersection with technology, bringing together works of scholarship that have not been in conversation up until now."
Jason Farman, University of Maryland

"A fascinating and thoughtful explication of the relationship between our bodily senses and mobile media, offering a unique perspective on the corporeal experience of modern technology."
Lee Humphreys, Cornell University

"At the centre of Richardson and Wilken's research is the question of how smartphones and other digital mobile devices impact people as a whole. The book, written by two media and communication researchers, reveals how technology changes and challenges the lives of millions of people."
Magazin für Computertechnik

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: body and media • body-technology relation • Communication • Communication & Media Studies • Communication & Media Studies Special Topics • Communication technologies • Cultural Studies • Digital Culture & the Information Age • Digitale Kultur im Informationszeitalter • digital place-making behaviour • ears and media • eyes and media • face and media • feet and media • hands and media • Ingrid Richardson • Kommunikation • Kommunikation u. Medienforschung • Kulturwissenschaften • media • Media Studies • Medienforschung • Mobile Devices • Mobile Media • Rowan Wilken • Senses • Spezialthemen Kommunikation u. Medienforschung • Urban Spaces
• ISBN-10: 1-5095-6080-7 / 1509560807
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-6080-6 / 9781509560806