Communications in the 21st Century / Mobile Communication - Essays on Cognition and Community

Mobile telephony constitutes a new sort of challenge to philosophy, and indeed to the humanities. The mobile telephone is a machine which corresponds to deep, primordial human communicational urges. The term "mobile information society" needs to be reconsidered. Mobile communications point to a future which offers a wealth of knowledge, not just of information, and promises to reestablish, within the life of modern society, some of the features formerly enjoyed by genuine local communities.

About the author

Kristóf Nyíri ist Professor für Philosophie an der Technischen Universität Budapest. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Wissenschaftstheorie, Kommunikationsphilosophie, Wittgenstein und Heidegger.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kristóf Nyiri (Editor), Kristóf Nyíri (Editor)
• Publisher: Passagen Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783851656022
• ISBN: 978-3-85165-602-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 426 g
• Illustrations: w. figs.
• Series: Passagen Philosophie; Communications in the 21st Century; Passagen Philosophie; Communications in the 21st Century
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science