The Great Indian Phone Book : : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life / / Assa Doron.
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 affl...
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Doron, Assa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Great Indian Phone Book : How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life / Assa Doron. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (351 p.) : 16 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- GLOSSARY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- RADIO FREQUENCY AND MOBILE PHONES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION -- 2 CELLING INDIA -- 3 MISSIONARIES OF THE MOBILE -- 4 MECHANICS OF THE MOBILE -- 5 FOR BUSINESS -- 6 FOR POLITICS -- 7 FOR WOMEN AND HOUSEHOLDS -- 8 FOR ‘WRONGDOING’ -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- PREFACE restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Cell phones Social aspects India. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074248 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674074248 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674074248/original |
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