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It is always nice to follow on ginats' footsteps! I just wanted to mention that the book
<i>"<i style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mobile
Technology and Social Transformations</span></a> -</i> Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts"
</i>co-edited by me and Stefanie Felsberger (PhD candidate in Women's Studies, Cambridge Univ), has been published recently by Routledge (UK), under the "Rethinking Development" banner.</div>
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The book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed
the ways in which people create, disseminate, and access knowledge.</p>
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While this is not a computing-history book per se, it does trace the historical use of mobile telephony in more recent times, especially in recent social transformations. I think that it will be an interesting and easy read for the SIGCIS community.</p>
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Best Regards,</p>
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-Ramesh</p>
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<span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">“</span><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”</span></font><i style="color:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit"><font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif" style=""><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(50,50,50); font-family:Charter,Georgia,Times,serif; font-size:11pt"><span style="font-weight:inherit">-
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</span></font><span style="font-size:10pt">Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Information Systems<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">Quinnipiac University</span></div>
<div class="PlainText" style=""><span style="font-size:10pt">Hamden, CT 06511, USA</span></div>
<div class="PlainText" style=""><span style="font-size:10pt">Email: ramesh.subramanian@qu.edu<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">Web: <a href="https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/ramesh-subramanian">
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</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-size:9pt">New Haven, CT 06511, USA<br>
</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-size:10pt">Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu<br>
Web: <a href="https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian">https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian</a><br>
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<div class="PlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Recent book:<span> </span></span><i style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246" style="margin:0px">Mobile
Technology and Social Transformations</a></i><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif; font-size:15px; text-align:start; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">, Routledge, UK (2021)</span><br>
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