Personal, Portable, Pedestrian
Mobile Phones In Japanese Life
Editor: MizukoIto
Mit Press Ltd (United States), 2006
Paperback, 368 pages
Size: 226x179 mm
ISBN: 9780262590259
ISBN-10: 0262590255
List price: £12.95
You save: 20%
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian
Talks about mobile communication use in Japan, covering the transformation of keitai (Japanese term for mobile phone) from business tool to personal device for communication and play. This book contains essays that document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a range of social practices and institutions.

