The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining re…
Mobile communication
by Ling, Rich, Donner, Jonathan
fromDigital media and society series
Programming Android
"Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provid…
Small tech: the culture of digital tools
by Hawk, Byron, Rieder, David M., Oviedo, Ollie O.