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Cell phones -- Social aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects.
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Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Communication and culture.
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Descript |
1 online resource (485 p.) |
Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark -- 3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion -- 4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana -- 5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China -- 6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions -- 7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication -- 8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt -- 9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone -- 10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self -- 11 The Mobile Phone's Ring |
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12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function -- 13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone -- 14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control -- 15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand -- 16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan -- 17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action -- 18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences -- 19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World |
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20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly -- 21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society -- 22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process -- 23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel -- 24 ''Express Yourself'' and ''Stay Together'': The Middle-Class Indian Family -- 25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania -- 26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication |
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27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment -- 28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia -- 29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences -- 30 Mobile Games and Entertainment -- 31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea -- 32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects -- Afterword -- About the Editor and Authors -- Index |
Note |
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
Alt author |
Castells, Manuel, 1942-
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ISBN |
9780262276818 |
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