Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone

By J. Agar. 2004

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How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX (2011, background): “Many have adopted a culture where they are ‘always connected’ to their peer groups, communities of practice and information [11].”
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History (2014, background): “The internet never had a built-in means of payment, but mobile phones do (Agar 2004; Horst & Miller 2006).”
The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure (2009, background): “The mobile may have been originally marketed as an aid to business (Agar, 2003), but the great mass of consumers of this device have more often approached it as a means for ‘staying in touch’ with family and friends.”
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature (2008, background): “Agar (2003) notes of the rising power of communities to share information with each other, using the example of local reactions to a volcanic eruption in Eastern Congo.”