Books in the Mediamatters series

Mobile Screens captures the ways in which we engage with screens as interfaces with spatial, temporal, and haptic experiences.

On the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies

Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, Screen Genealogies argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen, nor of the video display.

New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts

This book presents the first in-depth discussion of how specific geographical and historical conditions shape the way in which mobile phone maps are read, deployed, and engaged with in daily life.

In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which players seize back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself.

This book describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively deploys massive media -- a set of techno-social assemblages and practices -- in order to better understand their critical and creative potential.

How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contemporary household dynamics.