| Description |
xxxii, 293 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction : 'so uncanny and out of place' -- Controlling communication -- Celling India -- Missionaries of the mobile -- Mechanics of the mobile -- For business -- For politics -- For women and households -- For 'wrongdoing' : 'waywardness' to terror -- Conclusion : it's the atuonomy, stupid' |
| Summary |
This 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, the authors explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index |
| Subject |
Cell phones -- Economic aspects -- India.
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Cell phones -- Political aspects -- India.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects -- India.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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| Author |
Jeffrey, Robin, author
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| LC no. |
2012040090 |
| ISBN |
0674072685 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780674072688 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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