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Book SynopsisMobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates â and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new understanding of how we define public spaces, how we deal with locational privacy, and how networks of power are developed today.In Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Adriana de Souza E. Silva and Jordan Frith examine these social and spatial changes by framing the development of location-aware technology within the context of other mobile and portable technologies such as the book, the Walkman, the iPod, and the mobile phone. These technologies work as interfaces to public spaces â that is, as symbolic systems that not only filter information but also reshape communication relatiTrade Review"Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces presents an insightful analysis of how mobility affects behavior in public settings, and how public settings affect communication behavior. The authors cast their net broadly, encompassing a range of significant issues including voice and sound, privacy and publicity, and norms and policies." –James E. Katz, Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University 'An incredibly clear and useful guide to how mobile technologies are re-shaping our connections to locations and to other people. In considering devices that range from the paperback book to the portable music player to the smartphone as different kinds of "interfaces" with public space, the authors offer great insight into how we filter, control, and manage our relations with spaces and social situations that blur the boundaries between private and public. This is a much-needed contribution to the literature on the new location-based technologies that will become increasingly significant in the coming decade. Consider it an operating manual for the future.' – Mimi Sheller, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University'Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces is an historically situated and nuanced account of the role interfaces – from books and Walkmans to iPods and mobile phones – play in our relationships to self, others and everyday urban life. Connecting contemporary practice with classic social theory, this evocative and engaging book is a much needed contribution to this cutting edge field of research.' – Heather A. Horst, RMIT University, Australia'Highly recommended...In this thought-provoking volume, Silva and Frith consider the impact of location-aware mobile technologies on the human sense of identity, privacy, and control in public spaces. The authors effectively address this emerging area of scholarship, providing insight and discussing relevant theory...Extensively sourced and well written, this engaging title, part of the "Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies" series, is a welcome addition to the scholarship in this area.' – CHOICE magazine, D. D. Tritt, University of South Carolina Aiken, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Mobile Media History 1. Personalization 2. Privacy Part 2: Location-Awareness in Public Spaces 3. Mobile Phones 4. Location-Aware Media 5. Control and Personalization 6. Privacy and Surveillance 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not only the iPhone's particular characteristics, uses and affects, but also how the iPhone moment functions as a barometer for broader patterns of change. In the iPhone moment, this study considers the convergent trajectories in the evolution of digital and mobile culture, and their implications for future scholarship. Through the lens of the iPhoneas a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile mediathe essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Through a review of theories past and present, as well as various case studies into already visible change, this book lays a foundation for further scholarship in mobile media and sociotechnical query in general. Because of its focus on the iPhone as a context, the text has a grounding and certain familiarity that will likely give it wide appeal." -- Zack O'Leary, University of Edinburgh, review in First MondayTable of Contents1. Studying the Mobile: Locating the Field Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson Part I: iPhone as a Cultural Moment 2. The iPhone and Communication Gerard Goggin 3. The iPhone Moment, the Apple Brand and the Creative Consumer: From "Hackability and Usability" to Cultural Generativity Jean Burgess 4. Ambient Intimacy: A case study of the iPhone, Presence, and Location-based Social Networking in Shanghai, China Larissa Hjorth, Rowan Wilken and Kay Gu 5. "In bed with the iPhone"—The iPhone and Hypersociality in Korea Dong-Hoo Lee Part II: iPhone as a Platform and Phenomenon 6. iPhone Photography: Mediating Visions of Social Space Daniel Palmer 7. Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography Chris Chesher 8. A Logic of Layers: Indexicality of iPhone Navigation in Augmented Reality Nanna Verhoeff 9. Touching the Screen: A Phenomenology of Mobile Gaming and the iPhone Ingrid Richardson Part III: iPhone and Labor 10. The iPhone as an Innovation Platform: Reimagining the Videogames Developer John Banks 11. Network labor: Beyond the shadow of Foxconn Jack Linchuan Qiu 12. iPersonal: A Case Study of the Politics of the Personal Larissa Hjorth 13. Four ways of listening with an iPhone: From sound and network listening, to biometric data and geolocative tracking Kate Crawford 14. How a University Domesticated the iPhone Ilpo Koskinen

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Book SynopsisCommercial breaks, radio spots, product placements, billboards, pop-up adswe sometimes take for granted how much advertising surrounds us in our daily lives. We may find ads funny, odd, or even disturbing, but we rarely stop to consider their deeper meaning or function within society. What, exactly, does advertising do? How and why do ads influence us? How does the advertising industry influence our media? These are just a few of the many important questions addressed in The Advertising and Consumer Culture Readeran incisive, provocative collection that assembles twenty-seven of the most important scholarly writings on advertising and consumer culture to date. The classic and contemporary essays gathered here explore the past, present, and future of advertisingfrom the early days of print to the World Wide Web and beyond. These selections offer historical, sociological, critical, cultural, and political-economic lenses to explore a wide range of topicsfrom conTrade Review"This collection...was designed with the student in mind." -CHOICE"Turow and McAllister have done a masterful job of collecting key works on advertising and consumer culture. A wonderful resource for a wide range of classes in media studies and beyond."-Janet Wasko, University of Oregon"The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader offers a comprehensive assessment of the indelible impact that the marketing of consumer brands has on identity and interactivity in the modern age. The publication of this engaging and intellectually rigorous collection of essays could not arrive at a more appropriate time. With the strategies for monetizing—and mobilizing—global media audiences in the midst of thorough reformulation, this anthology will prove to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in charting how these accelerating trends are converging to transform our world."-Christopher H. Smith, USC Annenberg School for CommunicationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking Critically About Advertising and Consumer Culture Joseph Turow and Matthew P. McAllister Part One: The Rise of Commercial and Consumer Culture Introduction to Part One. 1. Advertising: The Magic System Raymond Williams 2. The Alien Past: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective Susan Strasser 3. "Educate the Public!" Stuart EwenPart Two: The Political Economy of Advertising Introduction to Part Two. 4. Televised Consumption: Women, Advertisers and the Early Daytime Television Industry Inger L. Stole 5. Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard Ben H. Bagdikian 6. Economic Censorship and Free Speech: The Circle of Communication between Advertisers, Media, and Consumers Jef I. Richards and John H. Murphy II 7. The Commodity Flow of U.S. Children’s Television Matthew P., McAllister and J. Matt GiglioPart Three: Creating Advertising Introduction to Part Three. 8. Encoding Advertisements: The Creative Perspective Aidan Kelly, Katrina Lawlor, and Stephanie O’Donohoe 9. Nightmare on Madison Avenue Devin Leonard 10. The Outing of Philip Morris: Advertising Tobacco to Gay Men Elizabeth A. Smith and Ruth E. MalonePart Four: Ads and Globalization Introduction to Part Four. 11. Gender and Advertisements: The Rhetoric of Globalisation Maitrayee Chaudhuri 12. The Construction of Beauty: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women’s Magazine Advertising Katherine Frith, Ping Shaw, and Hong Cheng 13. "Just Do It," But Not on My Planet Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson Part Five: Ads and Cultural Meaning Introduction to Part Five. 14. Reflections and Reviews: An English Teacher Looks at Branding James B. Twitchell 15. Advertising as Capitalist Realism Michael Schudson 16. The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African American Culture: "Whassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark Orbe 17. Flabless is Fabulous: How Latina and Anglo Women Read and Incorporate the Excessively Thin Body Ideal into Everyday Experience Robyn J. GoodmanPart Six: Ads and Politics Introduction to Part Six. 18. Selling Democracy: Consumer Culture and Citizenship in the Wake of September 11 Greg Dickinson 19. Political Advertising in US Presidential Campaigns: Messages, Targeting, and Effects Bruce W. Hardy 20. Campaign.USA; With the Internet Comes a New Political "Clickocracy" Jose Antonio VargasPart Seven: Advertising and the Active Citizen Introduction to Part Seven. 21. A New Consumerism, 1960-1980 Gary S. Cross 22. Pranking Rhetoric: "Culture Jamming" as Media Activism Christine Harold 23. Local Foreign Policy: Students and Communities Join the Fray Naomi Klein Part Eight: Ads and the Future Introduction to Part Eight. 24. The Work of Being Watched; Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure Mark Andrejevic 25. Advertisers and Audience Autonomy at the End of Television Joseph Turow 26. Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor 27. Advertising at the End of the Apocalypse Sut Jhally Index

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Book SynopsisCommercial breaks, radio spots, product placements, billboards, pop-up adswe sometimes take for granted how much advertising surrounds us in our daily lives. We may find ads funny, odd, or even disturbing, but we rarely stop to consider their deeper meaning or function within society. What, exactly, does advertising do? How and why do ads influence us? How does the advertising industry influence our media? These are just a few of the many important questions addressed in The Advertising and Consumer Culture Readeran incisive, provocative collection that assembles twenty-seven of the most important scholarly writings on advertising and consumer culture to date. The classic and contemporary essays gathered here explore the past, present, and future of advertisingfrom the early days of print to the World Wide Web and beyond. These selections offer historical, sociological, critical, cultural, and political-economic lenses to explore a wide range of topicsfrom conTrade Review"This collection...was designed with the student in mind." -CHOICE"Turow and McAllister have done a masterful job of collecting key works on advertising and consumer culture. A wonderful resource for a wide range of classes in media studies and beyond."-Janet Wasko, University of Oregon"The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader offers a comprehensive assessment of the indelible impact that the marketing of consumer brands has on identity and interactivity in the modern age. The publication of this engaging and intellectually rigorous collection of essays could not arrive at a more appropriate time. With the strategies for monetizing—and mobilizing—global media audiences in the midst of thorough reformulation, this anthology will prove to be a valuable resource for anyone interested in charting how these accelerating trends are converging to transform our world."-Christopher H. Smith, USC Annenberg School for CommunicationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking Critically About Advertising and Consumer Culture Joseph Turow and Matthew P. McAllister Part One: The Rise of Commercial and Consumer Culture Introduction to Part One. 1. Advertising: The Magic System Raymond Williams 2. The Alien Past: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective Susan Strasser 3. "Educate the Public!" Stuart EwenPart Two: The Political Economy of Advertising Introduction to Part Two. 4. Televised Consumption: Women, Advertisers and the Early Daytime Television Industry Inger L. Stole 5. Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard Ben H. Bagdikian 6. Economic Censorship and Free Speech: The Circle of Communication between Advertisers, Media, and Consumers Jef I. Richards and John H. Murphy II 7. The Commodity Flow of U.S. Children’s Television Matthew P., McAllister and J. Matt GiglioPart Three: Creating Advertising Introduction to Part Three. 8. Encoding Advertisements: The Creative Perspective Aidan Kelly, Katrina Lawlor, and Stephanie O’Donohoe 9. Nightmare on Madison Avenue Devin Leonard 10. The Outing of Philip Morris: Advertising Tobacco to Gay Men Elizabeth A. Smith and Ruth E. MalonePart Four: Ads and Globalization Introduction to Part Four. 11. Gender and Advertisements: The Rhetoric of Globalisation Maitrayee Chaudhuri 12. The Construction of Beauty: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Women’s Magazine Advertising Katherine Frith, Ping Shaw, and Hong Cheng 13. "Just Do It," But Not on My Planet Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson Part Five: Ads and Cultural Meaning Introduction to Part Five. 14. Reflections and Reviews: An English Teacher Looks at Branding James B. Twitchell 15. Advertising as Capitalist Realism Michael Schudson 16. The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African American Culture: "Whassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark Orbe 17. Flabless is Fabulous: How Latina and Anglo Women Read and Incorporate the Excessively Thin Body Ideal into Everyday Experience Robyn J. GoodmanPart Six: Ads and Politics Introduction to Part Six. 18. Selling Democracy: Consumer Culture and Citizenship in the Wake of September 11 Greg Dickinson 19. Political Advertising in US Presidential Campaigns: Messages, Targeting, and Effects Bruce W. Hardy 20. Campaign.USA; With the Internet Comes a New Political "Clickocracy" Jose Antonio VargasPart Seven: Advertising and the Active Citizen Introduction to Part Seven. 21. A New Consumerism, 1960-1980 Gary S. Cross 22. Pranking Rhetoric: "Culture Jamming" as Media Activism Christine Harold 23. Local Foreign Policy: Students and Communities Join the Fray Naomi Klein Part Eight: Ads and the Future Introduction to Part Eight. 24. The Work of Being Watched; Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure Mark Andrejevic 25. Advertisers and Audience Autonomy at the End of Television Joseph Turow 26. Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor 27. Advertising at the End of the Apocalypse Sut Jhally Index

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Book SynopsisUlrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he gives us insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

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Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade ReviewRabate counters our instinctively negative view of rust with a surprisingly wide variety of examples drawn from philosophy as well as the arts and sciences for a strikingly and broadly convincing argument as to the merits of rust … Rabate presents rust as an imperfection with unlimited possibilities. He clarifies its role in our lives and complicates how we value its role. He brings readers his family rouille recipe and the news that someday soon, science may give us a green rust capable of cleaning our water and soil … He provides plenty of food for thought as we run into these references across daily life. * PopMatters *This is a witty, delightfully eclectic fantasy and fugue on the theme of rust, which, it turns out, is a perfect metaphor for an aesthetics of metamorphosis in and after modernism. Rust has the ruddy glow of active thinking in the process of self-transformation. Rust not only doesn’t sleep, it never stops giving off sparks. * Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA *Through his elegant alchemical associations, Rabaté spins Rust to gold. * Vanessa Place, artist and criminal defense attorney *Rust has its fascinating moments, those deeply poetic instants where metaphor becomes real and you get a tiny glimpse of the wonder that can reside inside seemingly ordinary items. * San Francisco Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. How to Live with Global Rust 2. Hegel and Ruskin, from the Inorganic to the Organic 3. Interlude: Blood-work 4. Rats and Jackals, Kafka after von Hofmannsthal 5. Aesthetics of Rust Conclusion: Fougères to Marseilles: Green Rust or Edible Rouille? Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDesign culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday life. Its focus is on contemporary designed objects and the networks between the multiple actors engaged in their shaping, functioning and reproduction. It acknowledges the rise of design and the role of the designer as key components and key challenges of the modern world.Featuring an impressive range of international case studies, ranging from examples of everyday design such as IKEA furniture and amateur graphic design, to the role of the design professional and the functioning of design within organisations, Design Culture interrogates what this emergent discipline is, its methodologies, its scope and its relationships with other fields of study. The volume's interdisciplinary approach brings fresh thinking to this fast-evolving field of study.Trade ReviewOffers the reader an excellent deep dive into the concepts of design culturing in a very accessible way ... Overall this authoritative book instills a great sense of the many attributes and values of design culture. * The Design Journal *Reinvigorates the study of design by offering an alternative to other cross-disciplinary terms such as ‘design studies’ or ‘design thinking’. * Journal of Design History *This stimulating introduction to the approaches and ideas which inform design culture should do much to promote new ways of thinking about both design and culture, and the dialectic between them. * Pat Kirkham, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Center, USA and Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK *Design Culture is an essential contribution to the field of design studies. It addresses the ubiquity of the term 'design' from a cross sectional perspective, while introducing a precise, conceptual and methodological focus. * Claudia Mareis, Professor of Design Studies at the Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland *A stimulating, must-read overview of the interdisciplinary debates around Design Culture as a discipline and object of study for all those interested in the phenomenon of Design. * Mónica Farkas, Professor of Visual Communication Design at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay *Design Culture manages to break through the noise, providing an enlightening view of design as a dominating feature of everyday life. From the influence of Turkish paper doilies to the rise of the global sex toy industry, it gives a multi-layered account of seemingly insignificant designs. Filled as it is with impressive philosophical insights and amusing historical connections, Design Culture offers much to ponder. Indeed, designers, historians as well as many non-specialists will find this book both enriching and enjoyable. * Elizabeth Guffey, Professor of Art and Design History at the State University of New York at Purchase, USA *Designers often claim they seek to “improve or maintain the habitability of the world of their fellow citizen”. Design Culture may well be the appropriate theoretical framework I am longing for to better understand and explain what “habitability” is about. * Alain Findeli, Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Montreal, Canada *Table of ContentsIntroducing Design Culture Section 1: Developing Design Culture Introduction Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter, Kjetil Fallan Taste and Attunement: Design Culture as World Making, Ben Highmore Embedding Design in the Organisational Culture: Challenges and Perspectives, Alessandro Deserti and Francesca Rizzo Use in Design Culture, Toke Riis Ebbesen Section 2: Addressing Market and Society Introduction A Brand for Everyone, Sara Kristoffersson Buying into the Future: A Case Study of a Danish Brand of Fashionable Children’s Clothing, Trine Brun Petersen The Glowing Black of fritz-kola. Aestheticisation in Design Culture, Mads Nygaard Folkmann Section 3: Positioning Design Professions Introduction Design Culture in the Sex Toy Industry: a new phenomenon, Judith Glover Working from Home: Fashioning the Professional Designer in Britain, Leah Armstrong On the Professional and Everyday Design of Graphic Artifacts, Sarah Owens The Fixing I: Repair as Prefigurative Politics, Gabriele Oropallo Section 4: Locating Design Culture Introduction Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Relocating Kähler’s brand heritage, Niels Peter Skou Performing Turkish Design in Products, Collections and Exhibitions: Expanding the Archive, Seeking Depth, Harun Kaygan A Theoretical Straddle: Design Culture between National Structures and Transnational Networks, Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz and Katarina Serulus The Challenges and Opportunities of introducing Design Culture in Jordan, Danah Abdulla Epilogue: Design Culture as Practice Index

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