Mobile Democracy

Mobile Democracy
Essays on Society, Self and Politics

Herausgegeben von Kristóf Nyíri

Mit Beiträgen von Kenneth Gergen, Richard Harper, Joachim Höflich, James Katz, Joshua Meyrowitz, Mark Poster

Reihe Passagen Philosophie
Ubiquitous mobile communication satisfies fundamental human needs. At the same time mobile telephony is an answer to challenges represented by the complexities of a decentralized global mass society – our postmodern society. With the mobile phone dissolving the boundaries between private and public, work and leisure, and increasingly even between rich and poor, some basic patterns of life, labour, love, war, travel, business, and politics are changing. This volume contains papers by, among others, Kenneth Gergen, Richard Harper, Joachim Höflich, James Katz, Joshua Meyrowitz, and Mark Poster.

Citation:

Nyiri, K. (Ed.) (2003). Mobile democracy: Essays on society, self, and politics. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.

Machines that Become Us

Machines that Become Us

James E. Katz (ed.)

Book Description
This Transaction Publishers book (2003) book contains 13 chapters in three major sections (Theoretical Perspectives; National and Cross-Cultural Studies; and Subcultures, Technologies, and Fashion), with introductory and concluding chapters by Dr. Katz.

On the back cover Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Distinguished Professor, Information Systems Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, writes: "From cell phones to 'smart homes,' James Katz shows how ICTs (information and communication technologies) not only serve as extensions of human capabilities, but are being integrated into all aspects of our lives and our 'selves.' This book presents timely and valuable insights into how pervasive information technologies are altering the way people live, act, relate to others and think of themselves. Bravo!!".

Citation:

Katz, J. E. (Ed.) (2003). Machines that become us: The social context of personal communication technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Mobile Communication

Mobile Communication
Essays on Cognition and Community

Herausgegeben von Kristóf Nyíri


Reihe Passagen Philosophie
Mobile telephony constitutes a new sort of challenge to philosophy, and indeed to the humanities. The mobile telephone is a machine which corresponds to deep, primordial human communicational urges. The term “mobile information society” needs to be reconsidered. Mobile communications point to a future which offers a wealth of knowledge, not just of information, and promises to reestablish, within the life of modern society, some of the features formerly enjoyed by genuine local communities.

Citation:

Nyíri, K. (Eds.) (2003). Mobile communication: Essays on cognition and community. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.

Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning
Essays on Philosophy, Psychology and Education

Herausgegeben von Kristóf Nyíri

Reihe Passagen Philosophie
The potential of mobile communication for enhancing collaborative learning, and generally the changing nature of knowledge in the network age, make it inevitable that old philosophical problems become formulated in a new light. The problem of the unity of knowledge becomes once again a topical issue. Mobile learning – situationdependent knowledge – by its nature transcends disciplines. Its elements are linked to each other not just by texts, but also by diagrams, pictures, and maps. Many scientific activities today, too, are associated primarily not with printed texts, but with large multimedia databases. The problems of database integration and of multimedia search become central questions of the epistemology of the 21st century.

Citation:

Nyíri, K. (Ed.) (2003). Mobile learning: Essays on philosophy, psychology and education. Vienna: Passagen Verlag. 

Mediating the Human Body

Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion

Leopoldina Fortunati, James Katz, and Raimonda Riccini (eds.)

Book Description
T his Erlbaum Publishers book (2003) book contains 25 chapters in four major sections (The Body Between Science, Technology, and Art; The Body Communicating Between Technology, Fashion, and Identy; Dressing Technologies; The Body and Technologies for Health and Well-Being), with introductory and concluding chapters by L. Fortunati, J. Katz and R. Riccini.

Bringing together scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including communication, robotics, medicine, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, this distinctive anthology will provide new insights to scholars and advanced students exploring body-technology intersections and the attendant implications. Mediating the Human Body offers a unique contribution to future discussions, and will be relevant to continuing study and research in communication and technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, sociology and industrial design.

Citation:

Fortunati, L., Katz, J. E., & Riccini, R. (Eds.) (2003). Mediating the human body: Technology, communication and fashion. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.