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The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life /
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st Harvard University Press ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: 'so uncanny and out of place'
- Controlling communication
- Celling India
- Missionaries of the mobile
- Mechanics of the mobile
- For business
- For politics
- For women and households
- For 'wrongdoing': 'waywardness' to terror
- Conclusion: 'it's the autonomy, stupid'.
- pt. 1. Controlling
- pt. 2. Connecting
- pt. 3. Consuming.