Constant touch : a global history of the mobile phone / Jon Agar.
Agar, Jon.
2013
HE8635 .A33 2013 (Mapit)
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Title Constant touch : a global history of the mobile phone / Jon Agar.
Author Agar, Jon.
Edition Revised and updated edition.
ISBN 9781848315075 hardcover
1848315074 hardcover
Imprint London : Icon ; Minneapolis, Minn. : distributed in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2013.
Language English
Description x, 275 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number HE8635 .A33 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.5309
Note Originally published: 2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index.
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pt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone?
Save the ether
The cellular idea
pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA
The Nordic way
Europe before GSM : La Donna è Mobile, Männer sind nicht!
GSM : European union
Digital America divided
Mob rule : competition and class in the UK
Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation
Japanese garden
For richer, for poorer : India and China
pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs
TxtPower
Two organisations in the Congo
M-Africa
The Nokia way - to the Finland base station!
Mobile phones as a threat to health
Cars, phones and crime
Phone hacking : a very British scandal
Phones on film
pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers
3G : a cellular world made by standards
Apple
Apple's rivals
Blood on the smartphone
Smartphone culture
Cellular war
The revolution will not be mobilised
Oases of quiet
Perpetuum mobile?

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