Images in Mobile Communication: New Content, New Uses, New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783531179926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 210 str.

Martin, Corinne

Opis

The volume provides a new and original perspective on the field of mobile communication, as it focuses on the advent of images in the emerging uses of the mobile telephone: mobile television, visual telephony, picture taking, video recording, mobile Internet, etc.. Economically, the offer of new services and functionalities involves major stakes for the operators who have been seeing their revenues stagnate in Europe. On a cultural level, we ask if and how today?s mobile images might resume the dominating role which visual and audiovisual culture has been playing since the 1980s. Will the mobile telephone turn into a new mass medium? Finally, we pose the question how users appropriate the new services and contents, to what extend they resist to the technology or reinvent it? While prognoses are still a difficult task, the focus on early adopters may permit to identify new.

Spis treści

Mit Beiträgen von Thilo von Pape, Corinne Martin, Anne Jarrigeon, Iren Schulz, Frank Möller, Cornelia Wolf, Ralf Hohlfeld, Veronika Karnoswki, Julien Figeac, Nicolas Ojeda

O autorze

Dr. Corinne Martin is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research on Mediations (CREM), Paul Verlaine University of Metz, France.
Dr. Thilo von Pape is a Research Associate at the Institute of Communication Studies, Hohenheim University in Stuttgart, Germany.

Blurb

This volume provides an original perspective on mobile communication, focusing on the emerging deployment of images in mobile phone usage: photography, video, mobile television, mobile internet, etc. Deeply embedded in our audiovisual culture, images possess the undeniable power to reshape the future of the mobile phone as an “individual mass medium”. In this collection, European researchers in media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology and political science present empirical and conceptual work on a wide range of issues, including cultural change, new forms of sociability on individual and societal levels, tactics and strategies of users and producers, and finally, representations and imaginaries of the mobile phone in other established media.

This book is written for researchers and students of sociology, communication studies and cultural studies as well as for practitioners of interactive media and online communication.