Constant touch, a global history of the mobile phone, Jon Agar
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Constant touch, a global history of the mobile phone, Jon Agar
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Constant touch
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bibliography
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815366372
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Jon Agar
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a global history of the mobile phone
Summary
"Jon Agar takes the modern mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped as a global basis. A truly world history of this everyday device which we take for granted. "--Amazon
Table Of Contents
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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