Research Catalog

Title

Moving data : the iphone and the future of media / edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Snickars, Pelle.
• Vonderau, Patrick

Description

vii, 347 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Featuring an eclectic mix of original essays, Moving Data explores the iPhone as technological prototype, lifestyle gadget, and platform for media creativity. Media experts, cultural critics, and scholars consider the device's newness and usability--even its 'lickability'--and its 'biographical' story. The book illuminates patterns of consumption; the fate of solitude against smartphone ubiquity; the economy of the App Store and its perceived 'crisis of choice'; and the distance between the accessibility of digital information and the protocols governing its use. Alternating between critical and conceptual analyses, essays link the design of participatory media to the iPhone's technological features and sharing routines, and they follow the extent to which the pleasures of gesture-based interfaces are redefining media use and sensory experience. They also consider how user-led innovations, collaborative mapping, and creative empowerment are understood and reconciled through changes in mobile surveillance, personal rights, and prescriptive social software. Presenting a range of perspectives and arguments, this book reorients the practice and study of media critique."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• iPhone (Smartphone) > Social aspects
• Application software > Social aspects
• Smartphones > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. 1. Data archaeologies -- With eyes, with hands : the relocation of cinema into the iPhone / Francesco Casetti and Sara Sampietro -- Navigating screenspace : toward performative cartography / Nanna Verhoeff -- The iPhone as an object of knowledge / Alexandra Schneider -- Media archaeology, installation art, and the iPhone experience / Jennifer Steetskamp -- Hard candy / Kristopher L. Cannon and Jennifer M. Barker.
• pt. 2. Politics of redistribution -- Personal media in the digital economy / Göran Bolin -- Big Hollywood, small screens / Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska -- Pushing the (red) envelope : portable video, platform mobility, and pay-per-view culture / Chuck Tryon -- Platforms, pipelines, and politics: the iPhone and regulatory hangover / Jennifer Holt -- A walled garden turned into a rain forest / Pelle Snickars.
• pt. 3. The App revolution -- The iPhone apps : a digital culture of interactivity / Barbara Flueckiger -- Slingshot to victory : games, play, and the iPhone / Mia Consalvo -- Reading (with) the iPhone / Gerard Goggin -- Ambient news and the Para-iMojo : journalism in the age of the iPhone / Janey Gordon -- Party apps and other citizenship calls / Anu Koivunen -- The iPhone's failure : protests and resistances / Oliver Leistert.
• pt. 4. Mobile lives -- I phone, I learn / Anne Balsamo -- EULA, Codec, API : on the opacity of digital culture / Lane DeNicola -- The back of our devices looks better than the front of anyone else's : on Apple and interface design / Lev Manovich -- Playing the iPhone / Frauke Behrendt -- Mobile media life / Mark Deuze and The Janissary Collective.
• pt. 5. Coda -- The end of solitude / Dalton Conley.

ISBN

• 9780231157384 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231157391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231504386 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011043733

OCLC

764586355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library