[ecrea] "New media and the imagination of the future," a special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

The editorial team at Wi:Journal of Mobile Media is pleased to announce 
the release of our latest issue "New Media and the Imagination of the 
Future," guest-edited by Benjamin Beil and Simone Natale, with an 
afterword by David Nye.



Predictions and forecasts of the future of digital media are usually 
presented as ‘innocent’ and unbiased. In contrast, "New Media and the 
Imagination of the Future" aims to examine digital media as cultural 
constructs that are embedded in political, social, cultural, and 
ideological frames. Through critical analyses of case studies and 
theoretical viewpoints, contributors to this issue interrogate how 
predictions about the future of mobile and digital technologies inform 
their representation and acceptance in the public sphere. The issue 
therefore proposes to account for more serious considerations of what 
our claims and visions about the future tend to be.



The issue can be found here:  http://wi.mobilities.ca/



Table of contents



Simone Natale, “Introduction: New Media and the Imagination of the Future”
http://wi.mobilities.ca/introduction-new-media-and-the-imagination-of-the-future/



Andrea Ballatore, “The Myth of the Digital Earth between Fragmentation 
and Wholeness”

http://wi.mobilities.ca/myth-of-the-digital-earth/



Grant Wythoff, “Aerophone, Telephot, Hypnobioscope: Hugo Gernsback’s 
Media Theory”

http://wi.mobilities.ca/grant-wythoff-aerophone-telephot-hypnobioscope-hugo-gernsbacks-media-theory/



Benjamin Beil, “Introducing the All New eyePhone! – The Future of Mobile 
Media”

http://wi.mobilities.ca/introducing-the-all-new-eyephone-the-future-of-mobile-media/



Jens Schröter: The Future of the Media, General Ecology and its Economic 
Unconscious

http://wi.mobilities.ca/the-future-of-the-media-general-ecology-and-its-economic-unconscious/



Henry Adam Svec: Review of Utopia: Social Theory and the Future, eds. 
Jacobsen, M. H., and Tester, K.

http://wi.mobilities.ca/henry-adam-svec-utopia-social-theory-and-the-future/



Andrea Ballatore: Review of Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of 
Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media, by Imar De 
Vries

http://wi.mobilities.ca/andrea-ballatore-tantalisingly-close-an-archaeology-of-communication-desires-in-discourses-of-mobile-wireless-media/



David E. Nye: Afterword

http://wi.mobilities.ca/future_media_afterword/



We hope you will distribute this announcement through your networks.



The Wi: Journal of Mobile Media editorial team.



--
Dr. Simone Natale
https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/SimoneNatale


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