Titlebook: Wireless World; Social and Interacti Barry Brown,Nicola Green,Richard Harper Book 2002 Springer-Verlag London Limited 2002 Computer Suppore

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Studying the Use of Mobile Technologye phones which would be in use by the turn of the century. McKinsey confidently predicted that the total market worldwide would be around 900,000, taking into account the poor quality of the devices and the substantial cost of mobile phone calls..

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The Mutable Mobile: Social Theory in the Wireless Worldcts of its possible sociological significance. The technology and the behaviour it facilitates are already ubiquitous, and the wealth of folk-lore that surrounds it indicates that it is certainly a note-worthy social phenomenon. At the same time, its ready-to-hand (or even hands-free) quality, and t

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Who’s Watching Whom? Monitoring and Accountability in Mobile Relationsspecially emerging location-based services, to act as technologies of “surveillance”. I take as my starting point two instances of social relations, one drawn from what might be termed “popular culture”, the other drawn from observational research..

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The Region as a Socio-technical Accomplishment of Mobile Workers faces, pick up your lunch from the same sandwich maker, drive the same route or take the same train to get there. When you’re at work, you have the same conversations about what you did at the weekend, what you read in the paper that morning or what you saw on television last night. You fill in the

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Mobile Communications in the Twenty-first Century Cityrld wide web. Yet, the technologies with which humans communicate changed significantly in many other ways during the 1990s. The mass diffusion of inexpensive mobile communications technologies avoided scholarly attention, perhaps because it seemed pedestrian compared to the fantastic, nebulous dept

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Local Use and Sharing of Mobile Phones using their phones on the bus, in parks, cafés, on bikes, in the streets, waiting for the cash machine, in shops — nearly everywhere.. This public use of the mobile phone provides us with an invaluable resource for looking at the everyday, actual use of this technology.

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