Webcam / Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2014.Description: 204 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 0745671470
- 9780745671475
- 006.696 MIL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 006.696 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100481861 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequences. Yet webcam has profound implications for many facets of human life, from self-consciousness and intimacy to the sustaining of long-distance relationships and the place of the visual within social communications.
Based on research in London and Trinidad, this book shows how 'always-on' webcam is becoming an entirely different phenomenon from the initial use of webcam as a videophone. Webcam is examined within the framework of 'polymedia' - that is, the new environments created by the simultaneous presence of a multiplicity of communication technologies - and used to exemplify a theory of attainment that accepts media technologies as aspects of, rather than detracting from, our basic humanity.
Includes references (p. [192]-200) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. vi)
- 1 Conclusion: A Theory of Attainment (p. 1)
- 2 Self-Consciousness (p. 24)
- 3 Intimacy (p. 48)
- 4 The Sense of Place (p. 82)
- 5 Maintaining Relationships (p. 110)
- 6 Polymedia (p. 135)
- 7 Visibility (p. 162)
- References (p. 192)
- Index (p. 201)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.Jolynna Sinanan is a post-doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at University College London.