Description: Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.
Brief description: Stephen Monteiro is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University and author or editor of several books.
Review Quotes: "Throughout, Monteiro reminds us of the uncanny ubiquity of these objects in our daily lives. 'Smartphones, smartwatches, and the like have accompanied us almost everywhere only for the last twenty years, ' he writes, 'yet it has become difficult to imagine how life was before.'" Literary Review of Canada