The Great Indian Phone Book - How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life

Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and explore the whole ecosystem of cheap mobile phones.

About the author

Assa Doron is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University. Robin Jeffrey is Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asia Studies and Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.

Product details

• Authors: Assa Doron, Assa/ Jeffrey Doron, Doron Assa, DORON ASSA JEFFREY ROBIN, Robin Jeffrey, Jeffrey Robin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674072688
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07268-8
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications, India, Mobile phone technology, Asian History, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Communications engineering / telecommunications, Development economics & emerging economies, HISTORY / Asia / South / General