Catchphrases help us hold our intellectual head up high, socially. We can use buzzwords and Catchphrases as a mark of our understanding, our expertise, insight, intuition and general intellectual prowess. Some catchphrases were not really uttered but simply invented – – and then carried through the ages, delivered diligently from eager sender to ecstatic receiver. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cellphone’
What digital divide?!
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, So satisfying, TheoriesTags: Android, Bill Bryson, Buzzwords, Cellphone, cellphones, Chrome, digital divide, digital existence, international submarine communications cables, iPhone, Linux, mobile phone subscribers, Nokia, Patrick Henry, Population Division, Portio Research Mobile Factbook, satellite technologies, Symbian, total world population
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The global village implodes into locality
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Cellphone, digital social network, global village, gypsii, kinship, location information, Marshall McLuhan, mobile phone, mobile social networks, MXit, Paul Levinson, socio-political networks, urban legends, walky-talkies
If, like me, you are an avid reader of urban legends, you would have heard the story about the cocky guy at an upmarket restaurant who blabbers-on, talking endlessly on his mobile phone and showing off when, suddenly, the phone rings! Fact is, a mobile phone is very much like an addition limb, an integral [...]