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The Ringtone Dialectic : Economy and Cultural Form /
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the customisable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalised ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry - and almost as quickly fa...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the customisable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalised ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry - and almost as quickly faded away. This book charts the rise and fall of the ringtone economy and assesses its effect on cultural production. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780262315081 |