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"Harper guides us through an engaging narrative, captivating us with vignettes of studies in communication behaviour and concept technologies such as the Whereabouts Clocks that show the locations of your family members ... This is a fascinating book: an easy, enjoyable read that is refreshingly backed by an academic rigour that is so often missing from sociology studies on this subject. It's a must read for all those looking to the future of communications." --Lesley Gavin, Focus Magazine
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"A profound and searching inquiry into our thinking about communication. Harper's historical anchoring and nuanced interpretations add new insights into how the messages we send and receive make us who we are." James E. Katz, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Rutgers University "Harper guides us through an engaging narrative, captivating us with vignettes of studies in communication behaviour and concept technologies such as the Whereabouts Clocks that show the locations of your family members... This is a fascinating book: an easy, enjoyable read that is refreshingly backed by an academic rigour that is so often missing from sociology studies on this subject. It's a must read for all those looking to the future of communications." Focus "Throughout, the book throws up the kind of nuanced observations that seem at first surprising and then just right: text-messaging is, at some deep level, a form of 'gift exchange,' and 'social networking' is as much for keeping the world at large out as it is for inviting new people in. Post that on your Facebook." Steven Poole The Guardian "What an amazing, fascinating book. It is so rare to come across a book that offers such new and important insights, and is highly readable." William Webb, Head of Research and Development and Senior Technologist, Ofcom
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This book takes a fresh look at the human desire to communicate to express ourselves. It challenges conventional wisdom on the so-called information overload problem and champions the individual need to communicate to express who we are - all told with a sympathy for the individual and within the context of our history of living and communicating long before Twitter and Facebook.
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