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Taken for Grantedness : The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305266
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taken for GrantednessOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Forgotten Mobile Phone -- 2 DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus Technologies of Social Mediation -- 3 "My Idea of Heaven Is a Daily Routine" -- 4 "Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains" -- 5 "If I Didn't Have a Mobile Phone Then I Would Be Stuck" -- 6 "We Are Either Abused or Spoiled by It-It Is Difficult to Say" -- 7 Mobile Communication and Its Readjustment of the Social Ecology -- 8 "It Is Not Your Desire That Decides" -- 9 Digital Gemeinschaft in the Era of Cars, Clocks, and Mobile Phones -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society--as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.
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Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Forgotten Mobile Phone -- 2 DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus Technologies of Social Mediation -- 3 "My Idea of Heaven Is a Daily Routine" -- 4 "Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains" -- 5 "If I Didn't Have a Mobile Phone Then I Would Be Stuck" -- 6 "We Are Either Abused or Spoiled by It-It Is Difficult to Say" -- 7 Mobile Communication and Its Readjustment of the Social Ecology -- 8 "It Is Not Your Desire That Decides" -- 9 Digital Gemeinschaft in the Era of Cars, Clocks, and Mobile Phones -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society--as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.

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