Spectrum Orders: Digital Science Fiction and the Corrected Present.

This article examines the aesthetics of what Anthony Dunne calls "Hertzian space" or the electromagnetic flows that enable wireless communication devices through comparative attention to three contemporary transmedia universes: the BBC's Sherlock, SyFy's Alphas, and Fox's Touch. I argue that each of...

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Publicado en:Science Fiction Studies Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 33 - 51
Autor principal: Sheldon, Rebekah
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Publicado: University of California Press Mar2016
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