Taken for Grantedness The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society

Name: Taken for Grantedness The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
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ISBN: 9780262018135

ISBN-10: 0262018136

ISBN-13: 9780262018135

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Seyler Ling

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Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray may result. In just a few years, the mobile phone has become central to the functioning of society. 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,…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface: Mobile Phone Balloons


Acknowledgments



The Forgotten Mobile Phone



DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus Technologies of Social Mediation



"My Idea of Heaven Is a Daily Routine": Coordination and the Development of Mechanical Timekeeping



"Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains": The Constraining Freedom of the Automobile



"If I Didn't Have a Mobile Phone Then I Would Be Stuck": The Diffusion of Mobile Communication



"We Are Either Abused or Spoiled by It-It Is Difficult to Say": Constructing Legitimacy for the Mobile Phone



Mobile Communication and Its Readjustment of the Social Ecology



"It Is Not Your Desire That Decides": The Reciprocal Expectations of Mobile Telephony



Digital Gemeinschaft in the Era of Cars, Clocks, and Mobile Phones


Notes


References


Index