Taken for grantedness : the embedding of mobile communication into society /

"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 provides a taken-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ling, Richard Seyler
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Cell phones > Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication > Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Communication and culture.
Radiocommunications mobiles > Aspect social.
Communication interpersonnelle > Innovations > Aspect social.
Communication et culture.
Téléphones cellulaires > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cell phones > Social aspects
Communication and culture
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The forgotten mobile phone
  • 2. DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus technologies of social mediation
  • 3. "My idea of heaven is a daily routine": coordination and the development of mechanical timekeeping
  • 4. "Four-wheeled bigs with detachable brains": the constraining freedom of the automobile
  • 5. "If I didn't have a mobile phone then I would be stuck": the diffusion of mobile communication
  • 6. "We are either abused or spoiled by it
  • it is difficult to say": constructing legitimacy for the mobile phone
  • 7. Mobile communication and its readjustment of the social ecology
  • 8. "It is not your desire that decides": the reciprocal expectations of mobile telephony
  • Digital gemeinschaft in the era of cars, clocks, and mobile phones.

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