The Great Indian Phone Book : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life / Assa Doron.
Doron, Assa, author.
2013
HE9715
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Title The Great Indian Phone Book : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life / Assa Doron.
Author Doron, Assa, author.
ISBN 9780674074248
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074248
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (351 p.) : 16 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074248 doi
Call Number HE9715
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.5 23
Summary In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
GLOSSARY
ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, FIGURES AND TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RADIO FREQUENCY AND MOBILE PHONES
INTRODUCTION
1 CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION
2 CELLING INDIA
3 MISSIONARIES OF THE MOBILE
4 MECHANICS OF THE MOBILE
5 FOR BUSINESS
6 FOR POLITICS
7 FOR WOMEN AND HOUSEHOLDS
8 FOR 'WRONGDOING'
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PREFACE

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