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The Mobile Connection
Rich Ling
The Cell Phone's Impact On Society (Interactive Technologies)
Morgan Kaufmann
May 2004
On Sale: May 18, 2004
244 pages
ISBN: 1558609369
EAN: 9781558609365
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people
communicate? The mobile phone is used for 'real time'
coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage
their freedom, and teens 'text' to each other day and night.
The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation
or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite
society. This book, based on world-wide research involving
tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations,
looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The
mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility,
safety and security, coordination of social and business
activities, and use of public places. Based on research conductedin dozens of countries, this
insightful and entertaining book examines the once
unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and
between humans, period. The compelling discussion and
projections about the future of the telephone should give
designers everywhere a more informed practice and process,
and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.
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