[PDF.55fm] Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (MIT Press)

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life (MIT Press)

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 | #3235557 in Books |  2006-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x7.00l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 372 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very Informative of Japanese Culture but dry reading.|By Michelle K.|Keitai is defined as “a snug and intimate technological tethering, a personal device for supporting communication that are a constant, lightweight, and mundane presence in everyday life” (Mizuko Ito), in other words a mobile phone. In 1970’s there was a spark of increase in keitai use in Japa| ||"Geert Lovink taught me how to think critically about technology, and I always turn to him for thoughtful and humane analysis. Too few technology writers have any sense of social and cultural context, and too few technology critics have an appreciation of why

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 with mobile technology has become -- along with anime, manga, and sushi -- part of its trendsetting popular culture. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-languag...

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