Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction, by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau Data Archaeologies 1. With Eyes, With Hands: The Relocation of Cinema Into the iPhone, by Francesco Casetti and Sara Sampietro 2. Navigating Screenspace: Toward Performative Cartography, by Nanna Verhoeff 3. The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge, by Alexandra Schneider 4. Media Archaeology, Installation Art, and the iPhone Experience, by Jennifer Steetskamp 5. Hard Candy, by Kristopher L. Cannon and Jennifer M. Barker Politics of Redistribution 6. Personal Media in the Digital Economy, by Goran Bolin 7. Big Hollywood, Small Screens, by Alisa Perren and Karen Petruska 8. Pushing the (Red) Envelope: Portable Video, Platform Mobility, and Pay-Per-View Culture, by Chuck Tryon 9. Platforms, Pipelines, and Politics: The iPhone and Regulatory Hangover, by Jennifer Holt 10. A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain Forest, by Pelle Snickars The App Revolution 11. iPhone Apps: A Digital Culture of Interactivity, by Barbara Flueckiger 12. Slingshot to Victory: Games, Play, and the iPhone, by Mia Consalvo 13. Reading (with) the iPhone, by Gerard Goggin 14. Ambient News and the Para-iMojo: Journalism in the Age of the iPhone, by Janey Gordon 15. Party Apps and Other Citizenship Calls, by Anu Koivunen 16. The iPhone's Failure: Protests and Resistances, by Oliver Leistert Mobile Lives 17. I, Phone-I, Learn, by Anne Balsamo 18. EULA, Codec, API: The Opacity of Digital Culture, by Lane DeNicola 19. "The Back of Our Devices Looks Better than the Front of Anyone Else's": On Apple and Interface Design, by Lev Manovich 20. Playing the iPhone, by Frauke Behrendt 21. Mobile Media Life, by Mark Deuze and The Janissary Collective Coda 22. The End of Solitude, by Dalton Conley Bibliography List of Contributors Index
