Cell phone

半夜心血來潮莫明地很想找個人聊天，最後跟友人說了一個鐘，收線後看著自己的手提電話，然後上網找到這本書 《The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication 》by Heather Horst and Daniel Miller

(Book Description: The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas from religion to love. The Cell Phone presents the first detailed ethnography of the impact of this new technology through the exploration of the cell phone's The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communicationrole in everyday lives. )

很想讀一讀，Cultural anthropologist Daniel Miller的研究著作，之前常常在圖書館借他的書來看，很有趣的一位人類學家，可惜這本新書圖書館還未有(amazon上賣得很貴)，倒是有這本James Katz 編的 《Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology》，好像也很有趣。