Fanology: Hand-fans in the prehistory of mobile devices. (September 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Fanology: Hand-fans in the prehistory of mobile devices. (September 2019)
- Main Title:
- Fanology: Hand-fans in the prehistory of mobile devices
- Authors:
- Davies, Hugh
- Other Names:
- Frith Jordan guest-editor.
Özkul Didem guest-editor. - Abstract:
- In the prehistory of mobile devices, the hand-fan plays a crucial role. Extending well beyond use as an air-conditioning tool, the hand-fan has evolved across centuries and cultures to become a portable screen, a game console, an artistic medium, and an elaborate communication device. Drawing on the scholarly, literary, and art history of hand-fans in North Asian and European contexts, this paper excavates a deep history of hand-fans and connects them to contemporary mobile communication devices. This research develops two key aspects of the hand-fan as a communicative apparatus: first, the fan as an optical image surface to store and transmit information, constituting the earliest portable screen, and second, the fan as a haptic and gestural object from which distinct vernaculars arise. This paper maps a radical new trajectory in how we conceptualise the hand-fan in history and the mobile phone in the present.
- Is Part Of:
- Mobile media & communication. Volume 7:Number 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Mobile media & communication
- Issue:
- Volume 7:Number 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0007-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 303
- Page End:
- 321
- Publication Date:
- 2019-09
- Subjects:
- hand fan -- handheld devices -- haptic -- media archeology -- media history -- mobile phone -- optic -- portable devices
Mobile communication systems -- Periodicals
384.53 - Journal URLs:
- http://mmc.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/2050157919846181 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2050-1579
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- Legaldeposit
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