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Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication
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Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication

Author: Manuel Castells; et al
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Information revolution & global politics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life - or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at home, at work, and at school, and raises broader concerns about politics and culture  Read more...
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Mobile communication and society.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)652345071
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Manuel Castells; et al
ISBN: 0262033550 9780262033558 9780262513180 0262513188
OCLC Number: 69734592
Description: xii, 331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: List of figures --
List of tables --
Acknowledgments --
Opening : Oour networks, our lives --
1. The diffusion of wireless communication in the world --
2. The social differentiation of wireless communication users: age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status --
3. Communication and mobility in everyday life --
4. The mobile youth culture --
5. The space of flows, timeless time, and mobile networks --
6. The language of wireless communication --
7. The mobile civil society : social movements, political power, and communication networks --
8. Wireless communication and global development: new issues, new strategies --
Concusion : The mobile network society --
Notes --
References --
Index.
Series Title: Information revolution & global politics.
Responsibility: Manuel Castells ... [et al.].
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How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing  Read more...

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"The book should be required reading for researchers in all aspects of communication and information and students in sociology, media studies, geography, and politics." Scott Lash Times Higher Read more...

 
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