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Mobile Communications in the Twenty-first Century City

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The internet received widespread attention from social scientists in the years following the release of Mosaic in 1993 and subsequent growth of the world wide web. Yet, the technologies with which humans communicate changed significantly in many other ways during the 1990s. The mass diffusion of inexpensive mobile communications technologies avoided scholarly attention, perhaps because it seemed pedestrian compared to the fantastic, nebulous depths of cyberspace. Yet the mobile telephone represented merely the first wave of a torrent of personal technologies that were leading to fundamental transformations in individuals’ perceptions of self and the world, and consequently the way they collectively constructed that world.

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  1. Taub Urban Research Center, New York University, USA

    Anthony M Townsend

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  1. HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, BS34 8QZ, Bristol, UK

    Barry Brown

  2. Digital World Research Centre, School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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Townsend, A.M. (2002). Mobile Communications in the Twenty-first Century City. In: Brown, B., Green, N., Harper, R. (eds) Wireless World. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0665-4_5

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