Taken for grantedness
the embedding of mobile communication into society
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Author
Publication
2012 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
60,250 words, Guess
Page Count
241 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25282726M
- ISBN-139780262018135
- OCLC Control Number785721728
- Library of Congress Control Number2012009355
Classifications
- DDC303.48/33
- LCCHE9713 .L564 2012
Description
In this book, Rich Ling explores the process by which the mobile phone has become embedded in society, comparing it to earlier technologies that changed the character of our social interaction and, along the way, became taken for granted. By examining the similarities and synergies between the mobile phone and the clock and the automobile, Ling sheds a more general light on how technical systems become embedded in society and how they support social interaction within the closest sphere of friends and family.
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