Wi-Fi (Digital Media and Society) - Softcover

Thomas, Julian; Wilken, Rowan; Rennie, Ellie

 
9781509529902: Wi-Fi (Digital Media and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 150952990X ISBN 13: 9781509529902
Verlag: Polity, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

From café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and largely overlooked by researchers, this technology has driven the rise of the smartphone and broadband internet, and is a vital element in the next wave of automation.

Thomas, Wilken, and Rennie provide the first comprehensive account of the social and cultural consequences of Wi-Fi, highlighting the ways in which it has changed our homes, communities, and cities. They discuss its origins as an experimental technology, the conflicts generated around its ownership and control, and the ideas and expectations attached to it by technologists, activists, and entrepreneurs. The authors reveal the ways in which Wi-Fi is an inherently social and political technology, animated by conflicting aspirations for local, public, and community control, and defined by private and corporate interests. As this book shows, Wi-Fi has extended and intensified our online lives while also promising a more inclusive internet.

Wi-Fi is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as anyone who wants a better understanding of this ubiquitous and influential technology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at RMIT University.

Rowan Wilken is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

Ellie Rennie is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
150952990X
ISBN 13 
9781509529902
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
500
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