Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's Mobile Devices (eBook)

Life through the Looking Glass

Charles Soukup (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
132 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3961-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the role of mobile technologies in everyday life via the extended case study of Apple’s mobile operating system (iOS) for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. It is relevant to researchers/scholars as well as students interested in finding tools for making sense of their complicated media-saturated social world.

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Exploring Screen Culture via Apples Mobile Devices: Life through the Looking Glass explores the role of mobile technologies in everyday life via the extended case study of Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Via a detailed application (including numerous extended examples) of the experiences associated with Apple's iOS devices, Charles Soukup examines contemporary screen culture and how individuals navigate it via mobile technologies. Mobile devices provide a lifeline that sifts through, limits, and simplifies the complexities of rapid, vast, circulating information in postmodern culture. Particularly, simple, game-like applications with clear rules and numerical outcomes exceptionally focus, frame, and filter an overwhelming media-saturated culture. Rather than merely outlining the problems associated with a world dominated by digital screens, Exploring Screen Culture via Apples Mobile Devices offers a means for understanding screen culture as well as viable solutions to the challenges facing contemporary social life.

Autor

Charles Soukup is professor of communication at the University of Northern Colorado.

Inhalt

ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter One: Surveying the Looking Glass LifeChapter Two: Relevance Processing in 21st Century Screen CultureChapter Three: Postmodern Ethnography of Everyday LifeChapter Four: iOS as a Cognitive Map within Hyper-Mediated CultureChapter Five: Apps as Gamification in Everyday LifeChapter Six: Mobile Applications as Equipment for Living in a Hyper-Mediated Culture of TechniqueBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Smartphones / Tablets
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
• Schlagworte: Digital technology • Gamification • media • Postmodernism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3961-0 / 1498539610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3961-6 / 9781498539616