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New Tech, New Ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion by Rich Ling, MIT Press, 224 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-262-12297-9. - Play Between Worlds: Exploring online game culture by T. L. Taylor, MIT Press, 197 pp., $15.95, ISBN 978-0-262-51262-6 and - Communities of Play: Emergent cultures in multiplayer games and virtual worlds by Celia Pearce and Artemesia, MIT Press, 327 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-262-16257-9
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2010
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- The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 25 , Special Issue 3: Planning and scheduling , September 2010 , pp. 355 - 357
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010
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1 Mobile telephony is primarily a new mechanism to deliver telephony services that already existed—text messaging was very much an afterthought in the design of mobile services, and arguably does not provide any additional function over that which email already provided when text messaging was first introduced.
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