| Description |
xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The forgotten mobile phone -- DeWitt Clinton's "grand salute" versus technologies of social mediation -- "My idea of heaven is a daily routine" : coordination and the development of mechanical timekeeping -- "Four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains" : the constraining freedom of the automobile -- "If I didn't have a mobile phone then I would be stuck" : the diffusion of mobile communication -- "We are either abused or spoiled by it--it is difficult to say" : constructing legitimacy for the mobile phone -- Mobile communication and its readjustment of the social ecology -- "It is not your desire that decides" : the reciprocal expectations of mobile telephony -- Digital Gemeinschaft in the era of cars, clocks, and mobile phones. |
| Summary |
In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. By examining the similarities and synergies between the mobile phone and the clock and the automobile, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family. |
| Subject |
Cell phones -- Social aspects.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects. |
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Mobile communication systems -- Social aspects.
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Mobile communication systems. |
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Social aspects. |
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Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Interpersonal communication. |
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Technological innovations. |
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Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
| ISBN |
0262018136 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780262018135 hardback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
40021564944 |
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