Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication Into Society

by Rich Ling

An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society--as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.

Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018136
• ISBN13: 9780262018135
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher