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Cellphone : the story of the world's most mobile medium and how it has transformed everything!
- Title
- Cellphone : the story of the world's most mobile medium and how it has transformed everything! / Paul Levinson.
- Author
- Levinson, Paul.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TK6570.M6 L44 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 221 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Although the Internet takes us everywhere in cyberspace, it usually requires us to be seated behind a desk. In contrast, the cellphone lets us walk through the world fully connected. Cellphone explores the history of mobility in media - from books to cameras to transistor radios to laptops - and examines the unique impact of a device that sits in a pocket or palm and lets us converse by voice or text." "Cellphone considers how this new dual edge of accessibility transforms restaurants, public transport, automobiles, romance, literacy, parent-child relationships, war, and indeed all walks of life, trivial and profound. Like an organic cell that moves, evolves, combines with other cells, and generates, the cellphone has become a complex sparkplug of human life."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Popular works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-214) and index.
- Contents
- The "miracle-phone" -- Information on the move -- World wide spiderweb -- The mobile hearth -- The drawbacks of always being in touch -- The social intruder -- Kids on the hook -- More than a conversation piece : texting, texting, 1, 2, 3 ... -- Leapfrogging landlines and the digital divide -- The cellphone at war -- Future calls.
- ISBN
- 1403960410
- 9781403960412
- LCCN
- 2003066366
- OCLC
- ocm53144654
- 53144654
- SCSB-1348285
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library