Cell phone culture : mobile technology in everyday life / Gerard Goggin.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2007.Edition: ReprDescription: 251p : IllISBN: - 0415367441 (pbk.)
- 9780415367448 (pbk.)
- 303.48 GOG
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 303.48 GOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100452490 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory, this book is and clear and sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and technical context.
Interdisciplinary in its conceptual framework, Cell Phone Culture draws on a wide range of national, regional, and international examples, to carefully explore the new forms of consumption and use of communication and media technology that the phenomenon of mobiles represents.
This fascinating biography of an important cultural object:
adopts an integrated multiperspective approach considers the mobile phone and its history, production, design, consumption and representation examines the implications in contemporary media convergence such as digital photography an mobile internet.Also reflecting on the challenges and provocations of mobile phone technology and use, this is an absolute must read for any student of media studies, cultural studies or technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. x)
- List of abbreviations (p. xii)
- 1 Introduction: what do you mean 'cell phone culture'?! (p. 1)
- Part I Producing the cell phone
- 2 Making voice portable: the early history of the cell phone (p. 19)
- 3 Cool phone: Nokia, networks, and identity (p. 41)
- Part II Consuming the cell phone
- 4 Txt msg: the rise and rise of messaging cultures (p. 65)
- 5 Cellular disability: consumption, design, and access (p. 89)
- Part III Representing and regulating the cell phone
- 6 Mobile panic: health, manners, and our youth (p. 107)
- 7 Intimate connections: sex, celebrity, and the cell phone (p. 126)
- Part IV Mobile convergences
- 8 On mobile photography: camera phones, moblogging, and new visual cultures (p. 143)
- 9 The third screen: mobile Internet and television (p. 162)
- 10 Next gen mobile: 3G, 4G, and the return of location (p. 187)
- 11 Conclusion: mobiles as media (p. 205)
- Notes (p. 212)
- Bibliography (p. 217)
- Index (p. 247)