Constant touch : a global history of the mobile phone / Jon Agar
- Author
- Agar, Jon
- Published
- London : Icon, 2013.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Distributed in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. - Edition
- Revised and updated edition.
- Physical Description
- x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Contents
- pt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone? -- Save the ether -- The cellular idea -- pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA -- The Nordic way -- Europe before GSM : La Donna è Mobile, Männer sind nicht! -- GSM : European union -- Digital America divided -- Mob rule : competition and class in the UK -- Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation -- Japanese garden -- For richer, for poorer : India and China -- pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs -- TxtPower -- Two organisations in the Congo -- M-Africa -- The Nokia way - to the Finland base station! -- Mobile phones as a threat to health -- Cars, phones and crime -- Phone hacking : a very British scandal -- Phones on film -- pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers -- 3G : a cellular world made by standards -- Apple -- Apple's rivals -- Blood on the smartphone -- Smartphone culture -- Cellular war -- The revolution will not be mobilised -- Oases of quiet -- Perpetuum mobile?
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781848315075 (hbk.)
1848315074 (hbk.) - Note
- Originally published: 2003.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Behrend copy: Purchased with funds from the Verna M. Lombard Library Endowment; 2014.
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2014 - Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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