Ebook: Finding Augusta: Habits of Mobility and Governance in the Digital Era
- Tags: Augustus (Motion picture), Health, Information technology, Information technology--Health aspects, Information technology--Psychological aspects, Information technology--Social aspects, Mobile communication systems, Mobile communication systems--Health aspects, Mobile communication systems--Psychological aspects, Mobile communication systems--Social aspects, Psychological aspects, Self--Social aspects, Social aspects, Information technology -- Psychological aspects, Information technology -- Health aspects, In
- Series: Interfaces studies in visual culture
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Trustees of Dartmouth College
- City: Hanover;New Hampshire
- Language: English
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Introduction : bodies, mobilities, technologies -- Making tracks : Augusta app would like to use your location -- In hand and on the go : design, neuroscience, and habits of perception handheld -- "Location, location, location" : placing persons, accessing information, and expressing self -- Secured mobilities : how to think about populations -- Conclusion : an "aesthetics of existence," or habit-ing differently.;Finding Augusta breaks new ground, revising how media studies interpret the relationship between our bodies and technology. This is a challenging exploration of how, for both good and ill, the sudden ubiquity of mobile devices, GPS systems, haptic technologies, and other forms of media alter individuals' experience of their bodies and shape the social collective. The author succeeds in problematizing the most salient fact of contemporary mobile media technologies, namely, that they have become, like highways and plumbing, an infrastructure that regulates habit.
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