When Mobile Came: The Cultural and Social Impact of Mobile Communication
(Mobile communication & society, 1).
Shin Dong Kim
Book Description
When mobile arrived into our daily lives... The mobile phone perhaps is the fastest diffused medium in the entire history of human communication. Where lined telephones took over a century to reach the majority of people in developed societies starting in the late 19th century, it took less than a decade for mobile phones to sneak into peoples' pockets and bags. Since the diffusion process took such short terms in many developed countries, the study of the initial stages of diffusion was not easy in many cases. By the time scholars turned their attention to the phenomenon of mobile communication, people were already largely hooked up to the machine. The papers collected in this volume provide a valuable report in that sense.
Citation:
When mobile arrived into our daily lives... The mobile phone perhaps is the fastest diffused medium in the entire history of human communication. Where lined telephones took over a century to reach the majority of people in developed societies starting in the late 19th century, it took less than a decade for mobile phones to sneak into peoples' pockets and bags. Since the diffusion process took such short terms in many developed countries, the study of the initial stages of diffusion was not easy in many cases. By the time scholars turned their attention to the phenomenon of mobile communication, people were already largely hooked up to the machine. The papers collected in this volume provide a valuable report in that sense.
Citation:
Kim, S. D. (2005). When mobile came: The cultural and social
impact of mobile communication (Mobile communication & society, 1).
CommunicationBooks.
