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Exploring Screen Culture via Apple´s Mobile Devices: Life through the Looking Glass
Charles Soukup
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Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's 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 ... Read more
Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781498539609
SKU
V9781498539609
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Ref
99-1
About Charles Soukup
Charles Soukup is professor of communication at the University of Northern Colorado.
Reviews for Exploring Screen Culture via Apple´s Mobile Devices: Life through the Looking Glass
This postmodern ethnography refreshingly moves the discourse of mobile technology beyond dystopian hype and into the realities of everyday experiences. Soukup takes us through our looking glasses on a flaneur's journey of discovery phrased in terms that make it almost easy to see the truths and quirks of what iOS does, and how it affects our world. I'm looking forward ... Read more