The Meaning of a Mobile Age: Is It Just Cultural Noise?
Series
Communications in the 21st century
ISBN
3-85165-742-X
Type
book section
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Bertschi, Stefan
Editor(s)
Nyíri, Kristóf
Abstract
Foremost, the mobile phone is a technological artefact, a man-made object created for practical purposes. In this paper, however, the mobile phone is understood as a cultural artefact, an object which is far more than a mere technology transforming people's action and society. The paper's title contains the corresponding hypothesis: The meaning of a mobile age amounts, at the least, to what I will later call 'cultural noise'. But how to approach a hypothesis that even transcends itself, as indicated by the word 'just' and the question mark? In the following, an unusual question is answered using unusual frames of reference.
Funding(s)
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Mobile understanding : the epistemology of ubiquitous communication
Publisher
Passagen
Publisher place
Vienna
Start page
239
End page
252
Pages
14
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
21870