| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Software studies |
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Software studies (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Contents |
I. Architectures -- 1. On apps and elementary forms of interfacial life : object, image, superimposition / Benjamin H. Bratton -- 2. Controlled consumption culture : when digital culture becomes software business / Seren Bro Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen -- 3. The philosophical carpentry of the app : criticism and practice / Patricia Ticineto Clough -- 4. Remote control : Walfram/Alpha and Machinic Protocol / Robbie Cormier -- 5. The path is math : on the art and science of numbers / an interview with Stephen Wolfram -- II. Prosthetics -- 6. Auxiliary organs : an ethics of the extended mind / Nick Srnicek -- 7. Must we burn Virilio? : the app and the human system / Dock Currie -- 8. The app as an extension of man's desires / Eric Kluitenberg -- 9. "Text and walk without fear" : apps and the experience of transparency / Anna Munster -- III. Economics -- 10. App worker / Nick Dyer-Witheford -- 11. Dare et capere : virtuous mesh and a targeting diagram / Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjesen -- 12. Construction of the app economy in the networked Korean Society / Dai Yong Jin -- 13. What China's netizens want : building tech ecosystems n the world's toughest market / Steven Millward -- IV. Remediations -- 14. The language of media software / Lev Manovich -- 15. Apps as "charming junkware"? / Thierry Bardini -- 16. The Spinoza Lens-Grinder app / Drew S. Burk -- 17. From the digital to the tentacular, or from iPods to cephalopods : apps, traps, and entré́es (without) exit / Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Bisswas Mellamphy -- 18. To make you completely present in the moment / an interview with Scott Snibbe -- 19. Nonlinear music navigates the Earth / an interview with Ryan and Hays Holladay (Bluebrain) |
| Summary |
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment |
| Analysis |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computers and civilization.
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Mobile computing -- Social aspects
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Application software -- Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Computers and civilization
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Anwendungssoftware
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App Programm
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Mobile Computing
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Datorer och samhälle.
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Datorer -- sociala aspekter.
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Tillämpningsprogram -- sociala aspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, writer of preface, editor.
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Matviyenko, Svitlana, 1976- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780262320795 |
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0262320797 |
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9780262320801 |
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0262320800 |
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