Constant touch
Subtitle: a global history of the mobile phone
By: Jon Agar
Edition: Revised and updated edition.
Publisher: Icon; Distributed to the trade in the USA by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781848315075
Subjects: Cell phones; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. World in bits. What's in a phone?; title: Save the ether; title: The cellular idea; title: pt. 2. Different countries, different paths to mobility. Born in the USA; title: The Nordic way; title: Europe before GSM : La Donna è Mobile, Männer sind nicht!; title: GSM : European union; title: Digital America divided; title: Mob rule : competition and class in the UK; title: Decommunisation = capitalist power + cellularisation; title: Japanese garden; title: For richer, for poorer : India and China; title: pt. 3. Mobile cultures. Txt msgs; title: TxtPower; title: Two organisations in the Congo; title: M-Africa; title: The Nokia way - to the Finland base station!; title: Mobile phones as a threat to health; title: Cars, phones and crime; title: Phone hacking : a very British scandal; title: Phones on film; title: pt. 4. Smartphones. Intimately personal computers; title: 3G : a cellular world made by standards; title: Apple; title: Apple's rivals; title: Blood on the smartphone; title: Smartphone culture; title: Cellular war; title: The revolution will not be mobilised; title: Oases of quiet; title: Perpetuum mobile?