Nyíri, K. (ed.) (2006). Mobile understanding: The epistemology of ubiquitous communication. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
Preface and acknowledgements
by Kristóf Nyíri
 
MOBILES AND THE HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION
Genres of Communication, Genres of Information
by Ian Hacking
History of Ideas and the History of Communication: A Lesson for Research on the Cognitive Consequences of Mobile Communication
by Tamás Demeter
Where Are You? Mobile Ontology
by Maurizio Ferraris
 
MOBILE THINKING
My BlackBerry and Me: Forever One or Just Friends?
by Andrew Brook
Is Your Mobile Part of Your Mind?
by John Preston
Being Mobile: Cognitive Multiplicity
by Zsuzsanna Kondor
Collective Thinking
by Kristóf Nyíri
 
MOBILE LEARNING
e-Learning Nudism: Stripping Context from Content
by Herbert Hrachovec
Learning As Conversation: Transforming Education in the Mobile Age
by Mike Sharples
New Vistas of Learning in the Mobile Age
by András Benedek
What Counts as Digital Literacy: Experiences from a Seventh-Grade Classroom in Norway
by Louise Mifsud
Socio-Epistemological Engineering: Epistemological Issues in Mobile Learning Technologies: Theoretical Foundations and Visions for Enabling Mobile Learning Labs
by Markus F. Peschl
Dissemination and Acquisition of Knowledge in the Mobile Age
by Lara Srivastava
 
SOUNDS AND IMAGES

Voices out of Place: Voice, Non-Place and Ubiquitous Digital Communications
by Richard Coyne – Martin Parker

Seeing the “Seeing” of Others: Environmental Knowing through Camera-Phones
by Fumitoshi Kato

Contents, Forms and Functions of Interpersonal Pictorial Messages in Online and Mobile Communication
by Nicola Döring – Christine Dietmar – Alexandra Hein – Katharina Hellwig
Mobile Communication – a New Type of Discourse?
by Alina Ganea – Gina Necula
 
THE SYMBOLIC MOBILE
Magic in the Air: Spiritual and Transcendental Aspects of Mobiles
by James E. Katz
The Meaning of a Mobile Age: Is It Just Cultural Noise?
by Stefan Bertschi
 
Notes on Contributors
Index
 

About the Book
The content and structure of knowledge are at all times fundamentally moulded by the media through which knowledge is communicated. Today, the internet and mobile telephony are essential parts of these media. Minds have become bound up with technological devices. Face-to-face communication on the one hand, and the solitary study of documents on the other, merge with a world of continuous digital networking, texts with a world of images. Education is confronted by radical challenges; a revolution in epistemology is underway. The volume contains papers by, among others, Ian Hacking,
Andrew Brook, Richard Coyne, Maurizio Ferraris, James Katz, and Mike Sharples.

Kristóf Nyíri has published widely on Wittgenstein, Austrian intellectual history, and the philosophy of communication. He directs the interdisciplinary research program COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, conducted jointly by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile Hungary.

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