The ringtone dialectic economy and cultural form

A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals. Ringtones quickly became a multi-billion-dollar global industry and almost as quickly faded away. In The Ringtone Dialectic,...

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Main Author:	Gopinath, Sumanth S. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2013
Subjects:	Ring tones > Social aspects Cell phones > Social aspects Cell phone services industry Mobile games industry
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