ABSTRACT
This volume proposes the mobile Internet is best understood as a socio-technical "assemblage" of objects, practices, symbolic representations, experiences and affects. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss practices mediated through mobile communication, including current phone and tablet devices. The converging concepts of Materialities (ranging from the political economy of communication to physical devices) and Imaginaries (including cultural values, desires and perceptions) are touchstones for each of the chapters in the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Introduction
Theories of the Mobile Internet: Mobilities, Assemblages, Materialities and Imaginaries
part I|72 pages
The Politics of Mobility and Immobility
chapter 3|15 pages
The Materiality of Locative Media
On the Invisible Infrastructure of Mobile Networks
part II|83 pages
Mobile Pasts and Futures
part III|79 pages
Living Mobile Lives