Taken for grantedness : the embedding of mobile communication into 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, along the way, became taken for granted. By examining the similarities and synergies between the mobil...

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Main Author: Ling, Richard Seyler
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
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