[ecrea] new book: Moving data - The iphone and the future of media

MOVING DATA:
THE iPHONE AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA
Ed. by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau
New York: Columbia University Press 2012

ISBN 9780231157391
360 pages, $29.50 / £20.50 / EUR 22.95

The book is prominently displayed on Columbia University Press' home 
page: http://www.cup.columbia.edu/. You will also find the book's 
introduction on CUP's website: 
http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15738-4/moving-data/excerpt. 
Check CUP's blog (http://www.cupblog.org) for updates, interviews, and 
other features.

"Like the iPhone itself, /Moving Data/ is personal, mobile, and globally 
networked. Established and emerging scholars from media, information, 
and cultural studies track the transnational trajectory of the iPhone. 
These essays are accessible to a general reader, even while keeping in 
mind the telling differences between contacts and critique, apps and 
analysis."---Richard Grusin, director, Center for Twenty-First Century 
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"The editors of this volume are well-connected and savvy in their 
arrangement of critical entry points and scholarly voices. Like /The 
//YouTube Reader/, this is an extremely useful and timely collection, 
with a range of essays that do justice to the multifaceted possibilities 
bound together as the iPhone."---William Uricchio, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology Comparative Media Studies


"The iPhone is the first landmark twenty-first century invention. Not 
only the embodiment of a 'disruptive technology,' with its 
'applications' reversing the semantics of hardware to software, it also 
confirms that we need mobility studies to succeed---if not to 
supersede---cultural studies. /Moving Data/ nimbly signals these shifts 
and serves as a sure-footed road map to new territory."---Thomas 
Elsaesser, author of /The Persistence of Hollywood/


ABOUT THIS BOOK
The iPhone has revolutionized not only how people communicate but also 
how we consume and produce culture. Combining traditional and social 
media with mobile connectivity, smartphones have redefined and expanded 
the dimensions of everyday life, allowing individuals to personalize 
media as they move and process constant flows of data. Today, millions 
of consumers love and live by their iPhones, but what are the 
implications of its special technology on society, media, and culture?

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.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Pelle Snickars is head of research at the National Library of Sweden and 
coeditor, with Patrick Vonderau, of The YouTube Reader. His work can be 
found at www.pellesnickars.se <http://www.pellesnickars.se>. Patrick 
Vonderau is associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at 
Stockholm University and a cofounder and board member of NECS--European 
Network for Cinema and Media Studies (www.necs.org <http://www.necs.org>).

















Dr. Patrick Vonderau
Associate Professor & Senior Lecturer
Department of Media Studies
Stockholm University, Box 27062, S-10251 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-86747610, www.ims.su.se <http://www.ims.su.se>
Email: (patrick.vonderau /at/ mail.film.su.se) 
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