24/7 : how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play
 Author: Hanson, Jarice.
 Format: Book
 Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
 Language: English
 Summary:
Hanson (communication, U. of Massachusetts) explores the cultural impact in the United States of widespread and growing cell phone and Internet access and use. First providing a sociological profile of who uses these communication technologies and why, she subsequently offers chapters that examine the way some people lose personal control over their use of these technolo... (see more)

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Titles
  • Other Titles: How cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play
  • Other Titles: Twenty-four seven
Authors
Item Description
  • xvi, 153 p. ; 25 cm.
  • ISBN: 9780275993337 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0275993337 (alk. paper)
  • OCLC Number: 132681427
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-147) and index.
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Table of Contents
24/7: anytime, anywhere -- A cultural history of cell phones and the Internet -- The haves, have-nots, and don't wants -- Time bandits and space cadets: intimacy and illusions of control -- Digital democracy: individuals and society in transition -- Social spaces and scary places -- Bites and fragments: what do we know? what do we own? -- Where have all the phone booths gone? -- Living in the global village.~~~
Title Summary
Hanson (communication, U. of Massachusetts) explores the cultural impact in the United States of widespread and growing cell phone and Internet access and use. First providing a sociological profile of who uses these communication technologies and why, she subsequently offers chapters that examine the way some people lose personal control over their use of these technologies, the technologies' uses as avenues of public information exchange, social networking and loss of privacy, developing issues of copyright and intellectual property, and impacts on older technologies such as public telephone booths and traditional media. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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