From 'a box in the theater of the world' to 'the world as your living room': Cellular phones, television and mobile privatization

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1331-1347

  Groening, Stephen ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cellular phones; mobile privatization; public private divide; Raymond Williams; social atomization; television; Walter Benjamin

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650269836     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810362094     Document Type: Article

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