Integration and Ubiquity
Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence
Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence
Herausgegeben von Kristóf Nyíri
Reihe Passagen Philosophie
Mobile communications are rapidly merging with fixed-line telephony, the internet, and entertainment. Telecommunications convergence is a many-faceted process, creating radically novel and complex patterns of mediated culture, posing new challenges to the humanities.
Mobile communications are rapidly merging with fixed-line telephony, the internet, and entertainment. Telecommunications convergence is a many-faceted process, creating radically novel and complex patterns of mediated culture, posing new challenges to the humanities.
While the triumphal march of mobile telephony continues – by
2008 more than half of the world's population had become mobile phone users –
mobile communications are merging with fixed-line telephony, the internet, and
entertainment. Telecommunications convergence is a many-faceted process,
creating radically novel and complex patterns of mediated culture, posing new
challenges to the humanities. The various dimensions of convergence – digital,
technological, socio-cultural, linguistic; of content, devices, businesses,
markets, even of scientific theories – do not fuse seamlessly. The volume
contains papers by, among others, Mark Turner, Gerard Goggin, Zoltán Kövecses,
Dieter Mersch, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, and Anthony Townsend.
Citation:
Nyíri, K. (Ed.) (2008). Integration and ubiquity: Towards a
philosophy of telecommunications convergence. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
