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020 _a9781848315075 (hbk.)
020 _a1848315074 (hbk.)
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_beng
_erda
_cMJO
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050 4 _aHE8635
_b.A33 2013
100 1 _aAgar, Jon,
245 1 0 _aConstant Touch :
_bA Global History of the Mobile Phone /
_cJon Agar.
250 _aRevised and updated edition.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bIcon,
_c2013.
264 2 _aMinneapolis, Minnesota :
_bConsortium Book Sales and Distribution,
_c2013.
300 _ax, 275 pages :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _aOriginally published: 2003.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
505 0 _apt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone? -- Save the ether -- The cellular idea -- pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA -- The Nordic way -- Europe before GSM : La Donna eÌ Mobile, MaÌnner sind nicht! -- GSM : European union -- Digital America divided -- Mob rule : competition and class in the UK -- Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation -- Japanese garden -- For richer, for poorer : India and China -- pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs -- TxtPower -- Two organisations in the Congo -- M-Africa -- The Nokia way - to the Finland base station! -- Mobile phones as a threat to health -- Cars, phones and crime -- Phone hacking : a very British scandal -- Phones on film -- pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers -- 3G : a cellular world made by standards -- Apple -- Apple's rivals -- Blood on the smartphone -- Smartphone culture -- Cellular war -- The revolution will not be mobilised -- Oases of quiet -- Perpetuum mobile?
650 0 _aCell phones
_xHistory.
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949 _aHE8635 .A33 2013
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