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Author Katz, James Everett

Title Magic in the air : mobile communication and the transformation of social life / James E. Katz
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Mobile Communication and Social Transformation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Magic in the Air: Spiritual and Transcendental Aspects of Mobiles -- 3 A Nation of Ghosts? Choreography of Mobile Communication in Public Spaces -- 4 Public Performance of Mobile Telecommunication -- 5 Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co- Creation of Mobile Communication�s Public Meaning -- 6 Mobile Phones in Educational Settings -- 7 The Telephone as a Medium of Faith, Hope, Terror, and Redemption: America, September 11
Part 2 Telecommunication and Information in Society: Past, Present, and Future8 The Telephone and Social Transformation -- 9 Accounting for Information in Society -- 10 Future Communication Technology and Social Settings: A Speculative Exercise -- 11 Concluding Thoughts -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cell phones -- Social aspects
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
Cell phones -- Social aspects
Telecommunication -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781412809382
141280938X