Title The ringtone dialectic : economy and cultural form / Sumanth Gopinath.

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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 368 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	A decade ago, the customisable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalised ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. This book charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production.
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Subject	Ring tones -- Social aspects.
	Ring tones.
	Social aspects.
	Cell phones -- Social aspects.
	Cell phones -- Social aspects.
	Cell phone services industry.
	Cell phone services industry.
	Mobile games industry.
	Mobile games industry.
	Internet entertainment industry.
	Internet entertainment industry.
	Digital media -- Social aspects.
	Digital media -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Gopinath, Sumanth S. Ringtone dialectic. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013] 9780262019156 (DLC) 2012045906 (OCoLC)829087659
ISBN	9781461936831 (electronic book)
	1461936837 (electronic book)
	9780262315081
	0262315084
	9780262019156
	0262019159