Great Indian Phone Book How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life

Name: Great Indian Phone Book How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life
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ISBN: 9780674072688

ISBN-10: 0674072685

ISBN-13: 9780674072688

Edition: 2013

Authors: Assa Doron, Robin Jeffrey

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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.In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Glossary


Abbreviations


List of Maps, Illustrations, Figures and Tables


Acknowledgements


Radio Frequency and Mobile Phones


Introduction: 'So Uncanny and Out of Place'


In India


In the world


In conclusion



Controlling



Controlling Communication


Horses, runners and rulers


Untying communication



Celling India



'… Within a fortnight…'



Sidelining the referee



Bread, clothing, shelter-and a mobile



Schools for scandal



Connecting



Missionaries of the Mobile


Man's best friend


Talk time-small, medium, large


The art of retail



Mechanics of the Mobile


People


Factory workers


Tower walas


Mistriis


Trainers and trainees


Process


The Care Centre



Consuming



For Business


On the sea…


Around the globe…


At the bank…


On the river…


On the farm…


Empowering, ensnaring or just chatting …?



For Politics


'Smart mobs' in the world


'Smart organisations' in India


Limits, lessons and possibilities



For Women and Households


Who will guard the mobile?


The household mobile


Ownership and property


Romance, marriage and the mobile



For 'Wrongdoing': 'Waywardness' to Terror


'Waywardness'


Pornography


Crime


Scandal and surveillance


Espionage and terror


Conclusion: 'It's the autonomy, stupid'


Health


Mobile waste


Social networks


Language and media


Politics and governance


Notes


Bibliography


Index