Controlled and connected: 50 years of the cell phone
The Documentary Podcast
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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Society
Digital anthropologist Danny Miller has examined the impact of mobile phones in every continent. The advent of social media and sharing experiences, be that photographs or videos have been enabled by the phone. It's also enabled other things like citizen journalism on the 7th of July 2005 when we had a terrorist attack here in London. People were able to film what was happening on the tube trains and in the tunnels of London Underground.
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