The great Indian phone book how the cheap cell phone changes business, politics, and daily life / Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey.

By:

Doron, Assa [Author]

Contributor(s):

Jeffrey, Robin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [(c)2013.]Edition: first Harvard University Press editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxxii, 293 pages, [24. pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674074248
0674074246

Subject(s):

Cell phones -- Social aspects -- India

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HE9715.4

Online resources:

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Introduction: 'so uncanny and out of place' -- Controlling communication -- Celling India -- Missionaries of the mobile -- Mechanics of the mobile -- For business -- For politics -- For women and households -- For 'wrongdoing': 'waywardness' to terror -- Conclusion: 'it's the autonomy, stupid'.

part 1. Controlling -- part 2. Connecting -- part 3. Consuming.

Summary: In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	HE9715.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn831625533

In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four.

Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. Controlling -- part 2. Connecting -- part 3. Consuming.

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