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Global Mobile Media
Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles. Covering sight, sound and status, plus a host of other issues, he provides a provocative analysis of how mobile communication gadgets come to play such a prominent role in our lives. Any scholar of New Media will want to read this book - James Katz, Department of Communication, Rutgers University, USA
With billions of users worldwide, the cell phone is not only a successful communications technology; it is also key to the future of media. Global Mobile Media offers an overview of the complex topic of mobile media, looking at the emerging industry structures, new media economies, mobile media cultures and network politics of cell phones as they move centre-stage in media industries.
The development, adoption and significance of cell phones for society and culture have been registered in a growing body of work. Where existing books have focused on communication, and on the social and cultural aspects of mobile media, Global Mobile Media looks at the media dimensions. Goggin provides a pioneering yet measured evaluation of how cell phone corporations, media interests, users and policy makers are together shaping a new media dispensation.
Global Mobile Media successfully places new mobile media historically, socially and culturally in a wider field of portable media technologies through extensive case studies, including:
the rise of smartphones, with a detailed discussion of the Apple iPhone and how it has catalysed a new phase in convergent media, audiences and innovation
the new agenda in cultural politics and media policy, featuring topics such as iPhone apps and control, mobile commons, and open mobile networks
a succinct map of the political economy of mobile media, identifying key players, patterns of ownership and control, institutions, and issues
a critical account of cell phones' involvement in and contribution to much-discussed new forms of production and consumption, such as user-generated content, p2p networks, open and free source software networks
an anatomy of how cell phones relate to other online media, particularly the Internet and wireless technologies.
Global Mobile Media is an engaging, accessible text which will be of immense interest to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, as well as those taking New Media courses.
With billions of users worldwide, the cell phone is not only a successful communications technology; it is also key to the future of media. Global Mobile Media offers an overview of the complex topic of mobile media, looking at the emerging industry structures, new media economies, mobile media cultures and network politics of cell phones as they move centre-stage in media industries.
The development, adoption and significance of cell phones for society and culture have been registered in a growing body of work. Where existing books have focused on communication, and on the social and cultural aspects of mobile media, Global Mobile Media looks at the media dimensions. Goggin provides a pioneering yet measured evaluation of how cell phone corporations, media interests, users and policy makers are together shaping a new media dispensation.
Global Mobile Media successfully places new mobile media historically, socially and culturally in a wider field of portable media technologies through extensive case studies, including:
the rise of smartphones, with a detailed discussion of the Apple iPhone and how it has catalysed a new phase in convergent media, audiences and innovation
the new agenda in cultural politics and media policy, featuring topics such as iPhone apps and control, mobile commons, and open mobile networks
a succinct map of the political economy of mobile media, identifying key players, patterns of ownership and control, institutions, and issues
a critical account of cell phones' involvement in and contribution to much-discussed new forms of production and consumption, such as user-generated content, p2p networks, open and free source software networks
an anatomy of how cell phones relate to other online media, particularly the Internet and wireless technologies.
Global Mobile Media is an engaging, accessible text which will be of immense interest to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, as well as those taking New Media courses.
240 pages, Paperback
First published August 29, 2008
About the author
Gerard Goggin
42 books1 followerGerard Goggin is the inaugural Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, a position he has held since 2011. Previous appointments include Professor of Digital Communications at University of New South Wales (2007-2010), the University of Queensland, Southern Cross University, and, as visiting professor, the University of Barcelona.
Gerard's research focusses on social, cultural, and political aspects of digital technologies, especially the Internet and mobile media and communication, and disability and accessibility. He has published 20 books and over 170 journal articles and book chapters.
As well as his academic roles, Goggin has had a twenty-year involvement in communications and telecommunications policy, including appointments as a board member of the Disability Studies and Research Institute (DsaRI), foundation board member of the peak organization Australian Consumer Communication Action Network (ACCAN), deputy chair of the self-regulatory body Telephone Information Services Standards Council (TISSC), and member of the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council (AeRIC).
Gerard is a pioneering figure in mobile communication and media studies. His key books are Global Mobile Media (2011) and Cell Phone Culture (2006), as well as the edited collections Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Mobile Technology: From Telecommunications to Media (2009), and Mobile Phone Cultures (2008). In 2014, he will publish the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (with Larissa Hjorth) and Locative Media (with Rowen Wilken). Gerard edits the Oxford University Press Studies in Mobile Communication series (with Rich Ling), and is on the board of the Sage journal Mobile Media and Communication. Currently, Gerard is working with Sydney colleagues Dr Tim Dwyer and Dr Fiona Martin on an international project researching mobile Internet and its implications for media policy (supported by an ARC Discovery grant).
Gerard has a longstanding interest in Internet cultures and histories, as seen in key publications Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms (2009; with Mark McLelland), and a special issue of Media International Australia on Australian Internet histories (co-edited with Jock Given).
Gerard is working on a comparative, cultural history of the Internet in Australia and Asia-Pacific, with colleagues Mark McLelland (Wollongong), Haiqing Yu (UNSW), and Kwangsuk Lee (Seoul Tech) ? a project supported by an ARC Discovery grant. He is also a chief investigator on the ARC Linkage project Spreading Fictions: distributing stories in the online age, led by Jock Given (Swinburne), in collaboration with ABC and Screen Australia.
A key area of Gerard's research is disability, an interest he has had since working with disability activists and organizations in the telecommunications in the early 1990s. Gerard has an international reputation for his work with the late Christopher Newell, especially the prize-winning book Disability in Australia (2005) and Digital Disability (2003), as well as many papers on aspects of disability, society, media and culture. Gerard's book Disability and the Media (co-authored with Katie Ellis) will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
With Sydney colleague Dinesh Wadiwel, and Disability Australia Incorporated (PWDA), he is developing a disability rights research capacity, which aims to identify emerging rights relevant research needs within a changing political and social policy landscape, and share expertise between researchers and civil society practitioners (a project supported by the Sydney Social Justice Research Network).
Gerard's research focusses on social, cultural, and political aspects of digital technologies, especially the Internet and mobile media and communication, and disability and accessibility. He has published 20 books and over 170 journal articles and book chapters.
As well as his academic roles, Goggin has had a twenty-year involvement in communications and telecommunications policy, including appointments as a board member of the Disability Studies and Research Institute (DsaRI), foundation board member of the peak organization Australian Consumer Communication Action Network (ACCAN), deputy chair of the self-regulatory body Telephone Information Services Standards Council (TISSC), and member of the Australian e-Research Infrastructure Council (AeRIC).
Gerard is a pioneering figure in mobile communication and media studies. His key books are Global Mobile Media (2011) and Cell Phone Culture (2006), as well as the edited collections Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Mobile Technology: From Telecommunications to Media (2009), and Mobile Phone Cultures (2008). In 2014, he will publish the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (with Larissa Hjorth) and Locative Media (with Rowen Wilken). Gerard edits the Oxford University Press Studies in Mobile Communication series (with Rich Ling), and is on the board of the Sage journal Mobile Media and Communication. Currently, Gerard is working with Sydney colleagues Dr Tim Dwyer and Dr Fiona Martin on an international project researching mobile Internet and its implications for media policy (supported by an ARC Discovery grant).
Gerard has a longstanding interest in Internet cultures and histories, as seen in key publications Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms (2009; with Mark McLelland), and a special issue of Media International Australia on Australian Internet histories (co-edited with Jock Given).
Gerard is working on a comparative, cultural history of the Internet in Australia and Asia-Pacific, with colleagues Mark McLelland (Wollongong), Haiqing Yu (UNSW), and Kwangsuk Lee (Seoul Tech) ? a project supported by an ARC Discovery grant. He is also a chief investigator on the ARC Linkage project Spreading Fictions: distributing stories in the online age, led by Jock Given (Swinburne), in collaboration with ABC and Screen Australia.
A key area of Gerard's research is disability, an interest he has had since working with disability activists and organizations in the telecommunications in the early 1990s. Gerard has an international reputation for his work with the late Christopher Newell, especially the prize-winning book Disability in Australia (2005) and Digital Disability (2003), as well as many papers on aspects of disability, society, media and culture. Gerard's book Disability and the Media (co-authored with Katie Ellis) will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
With Sydney colleague Dinesh Wadiwel, and Disability Australia Incorporated (PWDA), he is developing a disability rights research capacity, which aims to identify emerging rights relevant research needs within a changing political and social policy landscape, and share expertise between researchers and civil society practitioners (a project supported by the Sydney Social Justice Research Network).
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July 15, 2011
mild, rather 'faded' criticism...
He reviews mobile industry from the perspective of political economy, but very superficially, does not name what has to be named! Only descriptive work..
taking into account (still) scarcity of literature on Smartphones I bought the book but now regret my 30 euros, could have bought instead a couple of good OLD SECOND- hand books...
He reviews mobile industry from the perspective of political economy, but very superficially, does not name what has to be named! Only descriptive work..
taking into account (still) scarcity of literature on Smartphones I bought the book but now regret my 30 euros, could have bought instead a couple of good OLD SECOND- hand books...
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