Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life UPDATE:Default Title Author/Contributor(s): Wenzel

Author/Contributor(s): Wenzel

Author/Contributor(s): Levenstein

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Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life UPDATE:Default Title Author/Contributor(s): WenzelAuthor Contributor(s): Ito, Mizuko; Matsuda, Misa; Okabe, Daisuke Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 9 8 2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always on" social engagement. 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