The Imaginary App

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.

Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of apps downloadable from the app store may come from the cloud, but they attach themselves firmly to our individual movement from location to location...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027488
• ISBN13: 9780262027489
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher