Title The cell phone : an anthropology of communication / Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller

Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgments -- Note on orthography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Infrastructure -- 3. Locations -- 4. Possession -- 5. Link-up -- 6. Coping -- 7. Pressure -- 8. Welfare -- 9. Evaluation -- Notes -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index Summary The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas from religion to love. The Cell Phone presents the first detailed ethnography of the impact of this new technology through the exploration of the cell phone's role in everyday lives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index Notes Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily Print version record Subject Cell phones -- Jamaica Cell phones -- Social aspects -- Jamaica Cell phones -- Jamaica -- Psychological aspects TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mobile & Wireless Communications. Cell phones Cell phones -- Social aspects Mobile Telekommunikation Soziologie Anthropologie Jamaica Jamaika Form Electronic book Author Miller, Daniel, 1954- ISBN 9781847883193 1847883192 9780857850805 0857850806 9786612545641 661254564X 9781474215657 1474215653

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