Is the Cell Phone undermining the Social Order? Understanding Mobile technology in a Sociological Perspective
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While conventional mass media (and fixed phones) have primarily supported centralized, formalized organizations , households and other supraindividual systems, cell phones increase the reach and capacity of decentralized, informal systems based on interindividual interactions, thus decelerating or even reversing very long-term evolutionary trends of human society: trends toward stable, depersonalized, formalized, complex and predictable supraindividual institutions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014