Neuware - Contraband follows a young man's journey into a new 'voyeur underground,' where profit-hungry youths prowl streets, secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content. To enhance the 'fully interactive experience,' key elements of modern wireless communication are woven throughout the work - including text messaging, online blogging, avatars and alerts, and gaming and live video broadcast.

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Title: Contraband
Publisher: Slave Labor Books M�r 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1593621019
ISBN 13: 9781593621018
Binding: Taschenbuch
Illustrator: Phil Elliott
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 178 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
Weight: 181 grams

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Contraband follows a young man's journey into a new "voyeur underground", where profit-hungry youths prowl streets, secretly filming radical events with mobile devices to satisfy society's demand for sensational on-the-go content. To enhance the "fully interactive experience," key elements of modern wireless communication are woven throughout the work ― including text messaging, online blogging, avatars and alerts, and gaming and live video broadcast.

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Virtually tomorrow in England and Belgium (and one presumes the rest of the West), real sex and violence rule the media. The mayhem on Contraband, which broadcasts via mobile phones, is so popular that to meet the demand it pays for new content, which has made even, perhaps especially, young kids (their small size helps them video unobtrusively) entrepreneurs of sleaze. Older young (22) “citizen journalist” Toby is discovered videographing Contraband proprietor Tucker doing something (never specified) illegal and is coerced into finding Charlotte, star of Contraband’s top-ranked video, recording her capture by terrorists in Afghanistan. A complicated chase ensues, which Behe and Elliott relate in chapters alternating between London in May and Belgium in June. The talk is nonstop, fraught with tech speak, Tucker’s terminally cynical take on everything, and extreme-entertainment protester Jarvis’ tough propagandizing. Toby digs his own grave deeper by not divulging that he has met (heck, slept with) Charlotte until just before the showdown. At times barely comprehensible, Contraband is a disturbingly plausible vision of future media heading toward wall-to-wall snuff films. --Ray Olson

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