Overview
Although the Internet takes us everywhere in cyberspace, it usually requires us to be seated behind a desk. In contrast, the cellphone lets us walk through the world, fully connected. Cellphone explores the history of mobility in media from books to cameras to transistor radios to laptops and examines the unique impact of a device that sits in a pocket or palm, and lets us converse by voice or text. The impact cuts both ways, and obligates as well as liberates: the device that allows us to call anytime, anywhere allows us to be called anytime, anywhere. Cellphone considers how this new dual edge of accessibility has transformed journalism, restaurants, public transport, automobiles, romance, parent child relationships, and indeed all walks of life, trivial and profound. Like an organic cell that moves, evolves, combines with other cells, and generates, the cellphone has become a complex sparkplug of human life.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Levinson
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.390kg
ISBN: 9781403960412
ISBN 10: 1403960410
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 17 April 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A superb and often amusing account of one of the greatest revolutions in human history, in which we are now living. The wristwatch phone of the old science fiction stories is now a reality! What more can we expect? Direct brain to brain communication? Stay tuned.... Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey A superb and often amusing account of one of the greatest revolutions in human history, in which we are now living. The wristwatch phone of the old science fiction stories is now a reality! What more can we expect? Direct brain to brain communication? Stay tuned.... --Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey A superb and often amusing account of one of the greatest revolutions in human history, in which we are now living. The wristwatch phone of the old science fiction stories is now a reality! What more can we expect? Direct brain to brain communication? Stay tuned.... Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
A superb and often amusing account of one of the greatest revolutions in human history, in which we are now living. The wristwatch phone of the old science fiction stories is now a reality! What more can we expect? Direct brain to brain communication? Stay tuned.... <i>Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey</i>
A superb and often amusing account of one of the greatest revolutions in human history, in which we are now living. The wristwatch phone of the old science fiction stories is now a reality! What more can we expect? Direct brain to brain communication? Stay tuned.... Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Author Information
Paul Levinson is Professor and Department Chair of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA. He is the author of numerous science fiction and non-fiction titles, including The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution and Mind at Large: Knowing in the Technological Age. He has a PHd in Media Theory from New York University, USA and has written over a hundred scholarly articles on the history and philosophy of communication and technology.
