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Magic in the Air - Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life (Paperback)
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Magic in the Air - Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life (Paperback)
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In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social
consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new
mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United
States and around the world. Magic in the Air is the most
wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz
investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's
impact on society and the way social forces affect the use,
display, and re-configuration of the cell phone. Surveying the
mobile phone's current and emerging role in daily life, Katz finds
that it provides many benefits for the user, and that some of these
benefits are subtle and even counter-intuitive. He also identifies
ways the mobile phone has not been entirely positive. After
reviewing these he outlines some steps to ameliorate the mobile
phone's negative effects. Katz also discusses use and abuse of
mobile phones in educational settings, where he finds that their
use is eroding students' participation in class even as it is
helping them to cheat on exams and cut class. Parents no longer
object to their children having mobile phones in class in a
post-Columbine and 9/11 era; instead they are pressing schools to
change their rules to allow students to have their phones available
during class. And mobile phone misbehavior is by no means limited
to students: Katz finds that teachers are increasingly taking calls
in the middle of class, even interrupting their own lectures to
answer what they claim are important calls. In keeping with the
book's title, Katz explores the often overlooked psychic and
religious uses of the mobile phone, an area that has only recently
begun to command scholarly interest. Magic in the Air will be
essential reading for communications specialists, sociologists, and
social psychologists.
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