Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones

Joel Kuipers, professor of anthropology and international affairs, co-authored this detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguistic and material aspects of cell phones. The book links the use of cell phones to contemporary discussions about representation, mediation and subjectivity and investigates how this increasingly ubiquitous technology challenges the boundaries of privacy and selfhood and raises new questions about how we communicate.