The Resource The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxxii, 293 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: 'so uncanny and out of place' -- Controlling communication -- Celling India -- Missionaries of the mobile -- Mechanics of the mobile -- For business -- For politics -- For women and households -- For 'wrongdoing': 'waywardness' to terror -- Conclusion: 'it's the autonomy, stupid'
- pt. 1. Controlling -- pt. 2. Connecting -- pt. 3. Consuming
- Isbn
- 9780674072688
- Label
- The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life
- Title
- The great Indian phone book
- Title remainder
- how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life
- Statement of responsibility
- Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Doron, Assa
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Jeffrey, Robin
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cell phones
- Cell phones
- India
- Handy
- Kommunikation
- Alltagskultur
- Soziokultureller Wandel
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Label
- The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Introduction: 'so uncanny and out of place' -- Controlling communication -- Celling India -- Missionaries of the mobile -- Mechanics of the mobile -- For business -- For politics -- For women and households -- For 'wrongdoing': 'waywardness' to terror -- Conclusion: 'it's the autonomy, stupid'
- pt. 1. Controlling -- pt. 2. Connecting -- pt. 3. Consuming
- Control code
- 812067691
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxxii, 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674072688
- Lccn
- 2012040090
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- Master record variable field(s) change: 300, 505
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)812067691
- Label
- The great Indian phone book : how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Introduction: 'so uncanny and out of place' -- Controlling communication -- Celling India -- Missionaries of the mobile -- Mechanics of the mobile -- For business -- For politics -- For women and households -- For 'wrongdoing': 'waywardness' to terror -- Conclusion: 'it's the autonomy, stupid'
- pt. 1. Controlling -- pt. 2. Connecting -- pt. 3. Consuming
- Control code
- 812067691
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxxii, 293 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674072688
- Lccn
- 2012040090
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- Master record variable field(s) change: 300, 505
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)812067691
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