Rich Ling: 4 books
by Rich Ling, Jonathan Donner
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. In 2007, the world had over 3 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people who...
by Rich Ling
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.
by Rajiv George Aricat, Rich Ling
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore, adopting a mobile phone appropriation model and following a pluralistic-typological approach. While presenting...
The Reconstruction of Space and Time
Mobile Communication Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with...