Mobile and Ubiquitous Media

This volume provides a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches that are useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically.

What does the phrase "ubiquitous media" actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. The goal of this volume is to provide a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically. In contrast to other existing texts on mobile media, these contributions on mobile media are contextualised within a larger discussion on the nature and history of ubiquitous media. Other sections of this edited volume are dedicated to historical perspectives on ubiquitous media, ubiquitous media and visual culture, the role of ubiquitous media in surveillance, the political economy of ubiquitous media, and the way a ubiquitous media environment affects communities, spaces, and places throughout the world.

Autorentext

Michael S. Daubs (PhD, Western University, Canada) is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Vincent R. Manzerolle (PhD, Western University, Canada) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is a co-editor of The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age (Peter Lang, 2014).

Klappentext

What does the phrase "ubiquitous media" actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. The goal of this volume is to provide a diverse set of critical, theoretical, and international approaches useful to those looking for a more diverse and nuanced understanding of what ubiquitous media means analytically. In contrast to other existing texts on mobile media, these contributions on mobile media are contextualised within a larger discussion on the nature and history of ubiquitous media. Other sections of this edited volume are dedicated to historical perspectives on ubiquitous media, ubiquitous media and visual culture, the role of ubiquitous media in surveillance, the political economy of ubiquitous media, and the way a ubiquitous media environment affects communities, spaces, and places throughout the world.

Inhalt

Figures and Tables - Acknowledgements - Michael S. Daubs/Vincent R. Manzerolle: Introduction: From Here to Ubiquity - Laura Steckman: How We Got Here: The Technologies and Policies Behind Ubiquitous Computing and Ubiquitous Media - Tanner Mirrlees: The Ubiquitous Media War - Eric Lehman: From Contagion and Revealing to Recovery and Healing: Examining the Lifecycle of Ubiquitous Control Through the Sony/BMG Rootkit - Aaron Shapiro: Google Street View and Representational Ubiquity - Marco Centorrino/Sebastiano Nucera: Wearable Technology in the Production, Diffusion, and Active Use of Ubiquitous Knowledge - Ana Rita Morais: Towards a New Visuality of "Mobile Infography": Examining Contemporary Visual Applications as New Ways of Seeing - Maggie Reid: Entrepreneurial Journalism and Ubiquitous Media: Considerations for Digital Labor - Pilar Lacasa/Julián de la Fuente/Katiuska Manzur: Youth Practices Online and Offline: Ubiquitous Tools and Meaningful Contexts - Kris Belden-Adams: Everywhere and Nowhere, Simultaneously: Theorizing the Ubiquitous, Immaterial, Post-Digital Photograph - Edward Comor: Ubiquitous Media and Monopolies of Knowledge: The Approach of Harold Innis - Susan Bryant: The Mediated Experiences of Our Everyday/Everynight Lives: Notes From a Case Study on Digital Labor - Jacqueline H. Fewkes/Abdul Nasir Khan: Push Narratives: Ubiquitous Mobile News and Participatory Local Media in Himalayan India - Turo Uskali: Towards Journalism Everywhere: The New Opportunities and Challenges of Real-Time News Streams in Finland - Mark Andrejevic: "Framelessness," or the Cultural Logic of Big Data - Sarah Harney: The Relationship Between Ubiquitous Media and Surveillance of Dissent From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter - Susan Currie Sivek: Ubiquitous Emotion Analytics and How We Feel Today - Contributors - Index.