Product Description: In 2011 there were an estimated 6 billion cell phone subscriptions worldwide. The prevalence of cell phones is having a significant impact on society. This book examines how cell phone connection is impacting the way people think and behave.

Product Description: This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. “Where are you?”―a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day―is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in contemporary social life and public space...read more

Product Description: The book won the Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize 2014. The book argues that the mobile as a political technology in a broad sense facilitates the global export of the Western concept of individuality. This empowers those subjectivities and mindsets which can adapt to the communication regime of ubiquitous connectivity...read more

Product Description: Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere...read more

Product Description: Experts are concerned about the way habitual cell phone use has altered teenagers lives. Through objective discussion, numerous direct quotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines What Are the Origins of Concerns About Cell Phone Use? Can Cell Phone Use Harm Teens Physically? Can Cell Phone Use Harm Teens Psychologically? How Serious a Problem Is Texting While Driving? How Serious a Problem is Sexting...read more

Product Description: In the few short decades since their commercial deployment, 5 billion people―about three-quarters of all humanity, including children―have become mobile phone users. No technology has even approached the mobile phone's wildfire success...read more