Personal, portable, pedestrian : mobile phones in Japanese life / edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda.

The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan's enthusiastic engagement...

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Other Authors: Itō, Mizuko, Okabe, Daisuke, Matsuda, Misa, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
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