Article:
Mapping the rise of the iPhone – Between phones and mobile media

dc.creatorVerstraete, Ginette
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:48:24Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:48:24Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses a cluster of specific technologies and practices in the history of the mobile phone in the U.S. and Europe that have been crucial for the success of Apple’s iPhone. It argues that Apple has integrated these developments along three major strategies: all-in-one, customization, and location-awareness. Unraveling these histories and strategies allows us to circumvent the blind spot created by looking at the iPhone solely as a magic object catering to the personal needs of the mobile user. What lies between the object and the subject is a complex assemblage of technologies, actors, and space-bound practices that situate the product and the consumer in an expansive, commodified, and increasingly modulated environment at the heart of which lies the entanglement of user agency and corporate control.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VERS
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15133
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/mapping-rise-iphone-phones-mobile-media/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3316
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectKonvergenzde
dc.subjectMedienkonvergenzde
dc.subjectiPhone
dc.subjectconvergenceen
dc.subjectcustomisationen
dc.subjectlocation awarenessen
dc.subjectMobile Mediaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:384
dc.titleMapping the rise of the iPhone – Between phones and mobile mediaen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVerstraete, Ginette (2014): Mapping the rise of the iPhone – Between phones and mobile media. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3 (1), 21–41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VERS.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:22:54
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VERS
local.source.epage41
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage21
local.source.volume3

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