Magic Screens: Everyday Life in an Era of Ubiquitous and Mobile Media Screens
Author:
- Charles E. Soukup (Univ of Northern Colorado)
Scholars have begun the daunting enterprise of understanding the role of mobile communication media in contemporary culture. In this analysis, I am entering this conversation with an eye toward the cultural implications of ubiquitous and mobile media screens for the "everyday" experiences of movement and time. As media screens enter virtually every facet of routinized and quotidian life (e.g., home life, work life, leisure), we are witnessing the unusual blending or converging of cultural processes.