The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming our experiences of space, time, and place, while reshaping our day-to-day interactions.

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Information

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9781442698635

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

21st Century History

Index

History

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part One. Spectral Genealogies
2. The Circulatory Turn
3. Radio Hats, Wireless Rats, and Flying Families
4. Atmospheres of Communication
Part Two. Mobile Practices
5. Mobile Publics and Issues-Based Art and Design
6. The Third Screen as Cultural Form in North America
7. Intimate Strangers: The Keitai Culture of ‘Belonging-without-being-with’
8. Terminal City? Art, Information, and the Augmenting of Vancouver
Part Three. Locative Media
9. Labours of Location: Acting in the Pervasive Media Space
10. Spectrum Policy as Art: Interview with Julian Priest
11. Augmented Urbanism: Locative Media Experiences in the Digital City
Part Four. Wireless Connections
12. The Wireless Commons Manifesto
13. Community Wi-Fi, Resistance, and Making Infrastructure Visible
14. ‘The network we all dream of’: Manifest Dreams of Connectivity and Communication or, Social Imaginaries of the Wireless Commons
Bibliography
Contributors