Steven E. Jones

Cell Tower

Buch

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The cell tower is a gigantic object we rarely see, effectively invisible, at the periphery of our vision but at the center of everyday experience. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fiberglass antennas, cell towers raise up high into the air the communications equipment that channels our calls, texts, and downloads. For security reasons, their locations are never advertised. But it's our romantic notions of connectivity that hide them in plain sight. We want the network to be invisible,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-4881-5
EAN: 9781501348815
Produktnummer: 31829067
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H16.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.7 cm 148 g
Gewicht: 148

Über den Autor

Steven E. Jones is DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author or editor of 11 books, including The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (2014).