Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media

Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau

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Paper, 360 pages, Halftones: 2,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15739-1
$29.50 / £20.50

July, 2012
Cloth, 360 pages, Halftones: 2,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15738-4
$89.50 / £62.00

"Like the iPhone itself, Moving Data is personal, mobile, and globally networked. Established and emerging scholars from media, information, and cultural studies track the transnational trajectory of the iPhone. These essays are accessible to a general reader, even while keeping in mind the telling differences between contacts and critique, apps and analysis." — Richard Grusin, Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"The iPhone is the first landmark 21st century invention. Not only the embodiment of a ‘disruptive technology’ and with its ‘applications’ reversing the semantics of hardware to software, it also confirms that we need mobility studies to succeed - if not to supersede - cultural studies. Moving Data nimbly signals these shifts and serves as a sure-footed road map to the new territory." — Thomas Elsaesser, author of The Persistence of Hollywood

"This book sets out to consider the iPhone as a medium with wide and often unanticipated affordances and implications for how we think about data, location, legacy media, and even self. The editors are well-connected and savvy in their arrangement of critical entry points and scholarly voices. Like the YouTube Reader, this is an extremely useful and timely collection, with a range of essays that does justice to the multifaceted possibilities bound together as the iPhone." — William Uricchio, professor & director, MIT Comparative Media Studies

Related Subjects

• Communications
• Cultural Studies
• Media Studies

About the Author

Pelle Snickars is head of research at the National Library of Sweden and coeditor, with Patrick Vonderau, of The YouTube Reader. He is a media scholar and the author of several books on media and media history, from digital photography and filesharing to amateur film and lantern slides. His work can be found at www.pellesnickars.se/.

Patrick Vonderau is associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including the history of film marketing and distribution, industrial film, and YouTube. He is also a cofounder and board member of NECSEuropean Network for Cinema and Media Studies (www.necs-initiative.org).

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