Mobile communication

Mobile communication

by Ling, Richard Seyler

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With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. By the end of 2008, the world had over 4 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people without affordable access to landline telephony now have mobile handsets of their own. With a mobile in our hand many of us feel safer, more productive, and more connected to loved ones, but p…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Mobile communication / Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner.

Summary

With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. By the end of 2008, the world had over 4 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people without affordable access to landline telephony now have mobile handsets of their own. With a mobile in our hand many of us feel safer, more productive, and more connected to loved ones, but perhaps also more distracted and less involved with things happening immediately around us.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 191 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780745644134, 0745644139, 0745644147, 9780745644141
  • oclc:ocn277068724
  • LC Classification:HE9713
  • Dewey Decimal:303.4833

Table of Contents

Introduction : the quarter-century beyond the Maitland Commission Report -- Short history of mobile communication -- Mobile communication in everyday life: 3 billion new telephones -- Mobile communication in everyday life : new choices, new challenges -- Debates surrounding mobile communication -- Conclusion : individual addressability, interlacing and the spillover of the control revolution.

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Subjects

Cell phone systems -- Social aspects Communication and culture Communication et culture Communication interpersonnelle -- Innov… contemporary society cultural sociology cultuursociologie hedendaagse samenleving Interpersonal communication Interpersonal communication -- Technolo… mobiele apparaten mobiele toepassingen mobiele uitrusting mobile applications Mobile communication systems Mobile communication systems -- Social … mobile equipment mobile units Mobiltelefoni -- sociala aspekter Radiocommunications mobiles -- Aspect s…

Writers

Ling, Richard Seyler Donner, Jonathan

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