Imar de Vries

Michiel de Lange

Joost Raessens

Sybille Lammes

René Glas

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture

The Playful Citizen

A number of recent studies of mobile wireless communication devices focus on use values, social implications, changing norms and ethics, conversation strategies and culture-dependent domestication. De Vries proposes to venture into a more historical and comparative direction to shed light on our preoccupation with them in the first place. He constructs an expanded archaeological view of the development, marketing, and reception of communication technologies over the past 200 years, providing a comprehensive account of how persistent paradoxical desires for sublime communication have come to gi.

Imar de Vries

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