Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss (Studies in Mobile Communication)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190634987 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The significance of mobile media is marked not by their ubiquity but by their deep embedding in everyday life, and evolving practices around of mortality, memory, and memorialization make this vividly clear. Subtle and sophisticated, Haunting Hands shows in intimate detail how media connect us - and shape our experience at the same time." --Paul Dourish, Chancellor's Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine . We could not hope for better guides to this complicated topic than Kathleen Cumiskeyand Larissa Hjorth
Arnold, 2013), Understanding Social Media (with S. Cumiskey is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the College of Staten Island - City University of New York. Khoo, 2016).. Hinton, 2013) and Gaming in Locative, Social and Mobile Media (with I. Goggin, 2014) and The Routledge Handbook to New Media inAsia (with O. Kathleen M. Richardson, 2014). Since 2003, Cumiskey has studied the social psychological consequence
Mobile media entangle various forms of social, online and digital media in specific ways that are both intimate and public, and yet the use of mobile media in contexts of loss has been relatively overlooked. Haunting Hands seeks to address this growing and important area by helping us to understand the relationship between life, death, and our digital after-lives.. Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. The ubiquity of digital specters is particularly evident in mobile media spanning smartphones, iPads, iPhones, or tablets. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of the deceased, the digital is bot