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Smartphone World-Ecology and the Materialization of the iPhone 5C.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Smartphone World-Ecology and the Materialization of the iPhone 5C./
作者:	Stratton, Nicholas.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
面頁冊數:	225 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-12B.
標題:	Communication. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29168460
ISBN:	9798802735848

Smartphone World-Ecology and the Materialization of the iPhone 5C.
Stratton, Nicholas.

Smartphone World-Ecology and the Materialization of the iPhone 5C. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 225 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation investigates how a smartphone handset materializes in a particular historical moment as a unique configuration of matter, energy, labor, capital, and power. In so doing it challenges dominant approaches to the study of media that conceptualize technologies like the smartphone as objects of material culture significant only in the context of their use. Rather, drawing on theories of media ecology and the world-ecology perspective, I conceptualize the smartphone as a planetary-scale socio-ecological process to make visible people, places, practices, processes, and nonhuman elements of the natural world that are fundamental to media, but which have thus far largely remained unaccounted for in more traditional media studies approaches. Using the iPhone 5c as a case study, I investigate three interrelated moments of the materialization process. I show how economic pressures, design choices, ecological consequences, and dynamics of social power are entangled in the becoming and unbecoming of a single smartphone handset model. Specifically, chapter 1 draws on political economy to examine the economic pressures that led directly to design choices about the material composition of the iPhone 5c handset. Chapter 2 draws on political ecology to show how iPhone 5c design choices translate into ecological transformations in numerous geographic locations around the world. Chapter 3 then develops a methodological approach I call critical ergonomics to show how an iPhone 5c design feature called iBeacon was intended to serve commercial interests by enabling handsets and their users to be incorporated into new marketing and retailing strategies. In approaching and analyzing the smartphone in this way, I argue that media studies should incorporate ecology, the environment, geography, and nonhuman natures into its analytical frameworks to better address ongoing ecological crisis, and growing inequalities.

ISBN: 9798802735848Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Apple

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