The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
184520400X
ISBN 13
9781845204006
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
224
Description
The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas from religion to love. The Cell Phone presents the first detailed ethnography of the impact of this new technology through the exploration of the cell phone's role in everyday lives. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
