Cellphone : the story of the world's most mobile medium and how it has transformed everything / Paul Levinson.
"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 - a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2004.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403960410 9781403960412 |