This century has been marked by the rapid and divergent uptake of mobile telephony throughout the world. The mobile phone has become a poignant symbol for postmodernity and the attendant modes of global mobility and immobility. Most notably, the icon of the mobile phone is...
This book locates the mobile phone not just as a symbol of lifestyle, but as a domestic technology that is very much subject to local nuances, treating the mobile phone as much as a cultural artefact as a functional technology.