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Title: The Cell Phone Reader

The Cell Phone Reader

Essays in Social Transformation

by Anandam Kavoori (Volume editor) Noah Arceneaux (Volume editor)
©2006 Textbook VI, 248 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Digital Formations, Volume 34

Summary

The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the profound social, cultural and international impact of this small device.

Details

Pages
VI, 248
Publication Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820479194
Language
English
Keywords
Mobile Telekommunikation Soziokultureller Wandel Aufsatzsammlung Mobile phone Technology Cell phone Culture
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. VI, 248 pp.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Anandam Kavoori (Volume editor) Noah Arceneaux (Volume editor)

The Editors: Anandam Kavoori is Associate Professor of Telecommunications and Director of The Cultural Technologies Project at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. In addition to his scholarly work in media theory and international communication, Dr. Kavoori has been a consultant for News Corporation, CNN International, and the Discovery Channel, and he was a key player in the start up of India’s first two 24-hour news channels, Aaj Tak News and Star News. Noah Arceneaux has an M.A. in American studies from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. His work has been published in a range of academic journals, and he has developed websites for the ABC, CBS, and Fox networks.

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