Roberto J. González, "Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network" (U California Press, 2020)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Connection and Communication - What's the Difference?
In your book, you start by differentiating between connection and communication. Can you tell us more about thi distinction? Sure, yes. I mean, the way i do it in the book is by looking at the etymology of these two terms. Connection comes from the same root word as nexus, which means linkage, linked,. And so one of the obse observations i make in the book early on is that connections often have a kind of a a kind of aspect to them in which you are locked in to something.
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