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OverviewAlthough 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 DetailsAuthor: Paul LevinsonPublisher: St Martin's Press Imprint: St Martin's Press Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9781403960412ISBN 10: 1403960410 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 17 April 2004 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA 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 InformationPaul 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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