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Article: Transforming Technologies, Altered Selves: Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines

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September 1, 2007
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Raul Pertierra. Transforming Technologies, Altered Selves: Mobile Phone and Internet Use in the Philippines. 2006. Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University Press. Pp.158, bibliog., graphs, index. Price unknown (Pb.), ISBN 971-555-524-1.

The mobile phone has been the most successful technology introduced to the Philippines. The country is heralded as texting capital of the world, with over 300 million texts sent daily: ten times, per capita, the world average. And while the Internet has only reached a penetration rate of 8 per cent, Pertierra assures us that 'the cell phone and the Internet revolution has just begun' (p. 17). In Transforming Technologies, Altered Selves: Mobile Phone and ...

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