Taken for grantedness : the embedding of mobile communication into society /
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| Author / Creator: | Ling, Richard Seyler. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012. |
| Description: | xi, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8939773 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Mobile Phone Balloons
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Forgotten Mobile Phone
- 2. DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus Technologies of Social Mediation
- 3. "My Idea of Heaven Is a Daily Routine": Coordination and the Development of Mechanical Timekeeping
- 4. "Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains": The Constraining Freedom of the Automobile
- 5. "If I Didn't Have a Mobile Phone Then I Would Be Stuck": The Diffusion of Mobile Communication
- 6. "We Are Either Abused or Spoiled by It-It Is Difficult to Say": Constructing Legitimacy for the Mobile Phone
- 7. Mobile Communication and Its Readjustment of the Social Ecology
- 8. "It Is Not Your Desire That Decides": The Reciprocal Expectations of Mobile Telephony
- 9. Digital Gemeinschaft in the Era of Cars, Clocks, and Mobile Phones
- Notes
- References
- Index
