By Andrea Ballatore
The Digital Earth is a techno-scientific myth, located in a constellation of media futures.
The myth of the Digital Earth between fragmentation and wholeness
Aerophone, Telephot, Hypnobioscope: Hugo Gernsback’s Media Theory
“Introducing the All New eyePhone!” – The Future of Mobile Media
By Benjamin Beil
Contemporary science fiction series no longer project the future of media technologies; instead, they are inspired by their own genre history.
The Future of the Media, General Ecology and its Economic Unconscious
By Jens Schröter
The prediction of the future of media must not be separated from the future of society.
Utopia: Social Theory and the Future
By Henry Adam Svec
The collection Utopia: Social Theory and the Future seeks to contribute to this well-established field of utopian studies by exploring convergences between social theory (conceived broadly) and utopia.
Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media
By Andrea Ballatore
De Vries’ objective is to uncover the deep mythological roots of communication technologies…
Afterword
By David E. Nye
All the articles in this special issue engage with business to some degree. It is therefore useful to consider how, and to what degree, product designers, entrepreneurs, and inventors seek to understand the future.
What is Mobilities (WIM)?
By David Madden
In May 2013, scholars from around the world gathered in Montreal for Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Society. The international conference, hosted by the Mobile Media Lab (MML) in the Communication Studies department at Concordia University, brought together researchers, artists, community organizers, activists and students concerned with issues, questions and articulations connected to what Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2006) have coined, the “new mobilities” paradigm. This paradigm has been described as a turn within humanities and social science research. It focuses on contemporary social, cultural, spatial, and technological practices within an increasingly mobile world. It opens frameworks for critical inquiry and, simultaneously urges the question: what is mobilities?
Judith A. Nicholson: Race and the Mobilities Paradigm
Interviewer: Allison Ferry https://doi.org/10.65968/TVSJ8038 Judith A. Nicholson (PhD), an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), has published on mobilities and race and on mediated mobilities in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014), Mediascapes: New Patterns…
Mimi Sheller: Mobility Justice
Interviewer: Allison Ferry https://doi.org/10.65968/ILKF2722 Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities; Associate Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary…