Smartphones and Society
If you’re looking to get up-to-speed about “all things” smartphone, why not check out these books to shed light on an always-evolving technology and how it is impacting social and business structures:The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society (Richard Seyler Ling) is an examination into the adoption and use of the cell phone that changes communication and informs design for the future. One reviewer commented the book as being “encyclopedic in its documentation, statistical and textual, both of mobile telephony and, especially, of sociological and social psychological theory. The topic is fascinating, important, and of universal relevance.”Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities (Margherita Pagani, Editor) explores new business opportunities and critical issue related to mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. This book identifies motivations and barriers to the adoption of 3G mobile multimedia services and provides an end-user perspective on mobile multimedia services that are likely to emerge with the roll out of Third Generation Mobile Services (3G). Mobile and Wireless Systems beyond 3G: Managing New Business Opportunities presents a single source of up-to-date information about mobile commerce including the technology (hardware and software) involved, security issues and factors driving demand adoption (consumer and business). This book provides researchers and practitioners with a source of knowledge related to this emerging area of business, while also facilitating managers and business leaders’ understanding of the industrial evolutionary processes.Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Araba Sey) draws on data gathered from around the world, the authors explore who has access to wireless technology, and why, and analyze the patterns of social differentiation seen in unequal access. They explore the social effects of wireless communicationwhat it means for family life, for example, when everyone is constantly in touch, or for the idea of an office when workers can work anywhere. Is the technological ability to multitask further compressing time in our already hurried existence? The authors consider the rise of a mobile youth culture based on peer-to-peer networks, with its own language of texting, and its own values. They examine the phenomenon of flash mobs, and the possible political implications. And they look at the relationship between communication and development and the possibility that developing countries could “leapfrog” directly to wireless and satellite technology. This sweeping bookmoving easily in its analysis from the United States to China, from Europe to Latin America and Africaanswers the key questions about our transformation into a mobile network society.