Webcam

Name: Webcam
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ISBN: 9780745671475

ISBN-10: 0745671470

ISBN-13: 9780745671475

Edition: 2013

Authors: Daniel Miller, Jolynna Sinanan

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English