Contributions

  • Donner, Jonathan - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Polity, Cambridge, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

47,750 words, Guess

Page Count

191 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • ISBN-139780745644141
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009282285
  • OCLC Control Number277068724
  • Better World Books9780745644134
  • Better World Books9780745644141
  • Open LibraryOL24409560M

Classifications

  • DDC303.4833
  • LCCTK6570.M6 L535 2009
  • LCCHE9713 .L54 2009
and 1 more
  • LCCTK6570.M6 L54 2009

Description

With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. By the end of 2008, the world had over 4 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people without affordable access to landline telephony now have mobile handsets of their own. With a mobile in our hand many of us feel safer, more productive, and more connected to loved ones, but perhaps also more distracted and less involved with things happening immediately around us.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Digital media and society series

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