Taken for grantedness : the embedding of mobile communication into society

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"Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-...

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Main Author: Ling, Richard Seyler
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012
Subjects:
Cell phones > Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Interpersonal communication > Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Communication and culture.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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": coordination and the development of mechanical timekeeping
  • 4. "Four-wheeled bigs with detachable brains": the constraining freedom of the automobile
  • 5. "If I didn't have a mobile phone then I would be stuck": the diffusion of mobile communication
  • 6. "We are either abused or spoiled by it
  • it is difficult to say": constructing legitimacy for the mobile phone
  • 7. Mobile communication and its readjustment of the social ecology
  • 8. "It is not your desire that decides": the reciprocal expectations of mobile telephony
  • Digital gemeinschaft in the era of cars, clocks, and mobile phones.

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