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Title: Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone (Postmodern Encounters) by George Myerson ISBN: 1-84046-236-1 Publisher: Totem Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, short, concrete introduction to Heidegger and Habermas
Comment: This is really a very useful book in introducing some central concepts of Heidegger's philosophy and Habermas' social theory as they bear on the frantically growing domain of information-technology-mediated and mobile life, experience, and communication, through a critique of the ideology surrounding the marketing and diffusion of mobile phones (meaning not just cellular phones but especially Internet-capable phones and devices). Myerson uses as his text both marketing literature and newspaper stories about mobile phones and the kind of communication that they are intended for and promote, criticizing them through presenting the alternate models of communication, meaning, and understanding that are central to the work of Heidegger and Habermas in such a way that a reader with no prior acquaintance with these two thinkers could get the gist of what they are trying to do with their thought, and makes Habermas' conception of communication as sharing understanding and meaning and Habermas' distinction between system and lifeworld seem graspable and concretely relevant in terms that everyone has already experienced. He includes an appendix with a brief introductory bibliography for anyone wanting to learn more about these two H's. The book is also extremely short, really it is the length of a magazine article and could be read in an hour or two: the main text is 67 pages long, each of which contains no more than half the amount of print in a standard book. The one critique that one can make of this book is that like other kinds of critiques of ideology, it takes the ideology of mobile phones (e.g. Nokia's self-description of the nature and future of mobile phones) at face value, without paying attention to the ways in which people are often a lot smarter and socially savvy than corporations and advertisers take them to be, and often bend to their own lifeworld purposes and social meanings the devices and methods that are marketed under the ideology of instrumental and efficient communication and behavior. But for a quick, useful introduction to Heidegger and Habermas and a quick critical perspective on the emergent wired world, this book does a very good job.
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Title: Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance by James Everett Katz, Mark A. Aakhus, James E. Katz ISBN: 0521002664 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold ISBN: 0738206083 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Mobile Minded by Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink ISBN: 1584231238 Publisher: Gingko Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Cultural Studies) by Marc Auge, John Howe ISBN: 1859840515 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Web Theory by Robert Burnett, P. David Marshall, David Marshall ISBN: 041523834X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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