Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and...

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Inflection Point -- 1 The Next Revolution in Global Information and Communication Markets -- 2 The First Two ICT Eras -- 3 Modularity at the Inflection Point -- 4 Modularity and Innovation -- 5 The Political Economy of the Inflection...

Most studies of the digital divide and network connectivity begin by asking how many people are in a network, and what are the network effects associated. We flip the framing by using on the excluded instead of the included. We find, looking at Metcalfe’s Law, Reed’s Law, and other network...