Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication / Manuel Castells [and others].

Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication /

"Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life - or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywh...

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Other Authors: Castells, Manuel, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Information revolution & global politics.
Subjects:
Communication > Social aspects.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Opening : Oour networks, our lives
  • 1. The diffusion of wireless communication in the world
  • 2. The social differentiation of wireless communication users: age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status
  • 3. Communication and mobility in everyday life
  • 4. The mobile youth culture
  • 5. The space of flows, timeless time, and mobile networks
  • 6. The language of wireless communication
  • 7. The mobile civil society : social movements, political power, and communication networks
  • 8. Wireless communication and global development: new issues, new strategies
  • Concusion : The mobile network society
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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