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The Mobile Connection:

The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
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Morgan Kaufmann, Jun 25, 2004 - 244 pages
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for “real time? coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens “text? to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places.

Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.

*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
*A particularly "good read", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones.
*Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.
  

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Good, accessible introductory text on issues surrounding mobile/wireless technology. Rich Ling is a big name in this field. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Making Sense of Mobile Telephone Adoption
21
Chapter 3 Safety and Security
35
Chapter 4 The Coordination of Everyday Life
57
Chapter 5 The Mobile Telephone and Teens
83
Chapter 6 The Intrusive Nature of Mobile Telephony
123
Chapter 7 Texting and the Growth of Asynchronous Discourse
145
The Significance of Osbornes Prognosis
169
Data Sources Used in the Analysis of Mobile Telephony
197
Endnotes
201
Bibliography
223
Index
239
Copyright

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The mobile connection: the cell phone's impact on society
The mobile connection: the cell phone's impact on society
Richard Seyler Ling
Snippet view - 2004

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About the author (2004)

Rich Ling is professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and is also a sociologist at Telenor's research institute near Oslo, Norway. Previously, he was Pohs Visiting Professor of Communication at the University of Michigan. He is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion, and The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society.

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TitleThe Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
Interactive Technologies
AuthorRich Ling
Editionrevised
PublisherMorgan Kaufmann, 2004
ISBN0080518931, 9780080518930
Length244 pages
  
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