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Finding Augusta
Heidi Rae Cooley
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Description for Finding Augusta
Paperback. Addresses the effect of mobile communications technologies on individuals' habits and how they are regulated Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit. Audacious in its originality, Finding Augusta will be of great interest to art and media scholars ... Read more
Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit. Audacious in its originality, Finding Augusta will be of great interest to art and media scholars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611685220
SKU
V9781611685220
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