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Perpetual contact : mobile communication, private talk, public performance / edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus.
LIBRA HE9713 .P47 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cell phones--Social aspects.
- Cell phones.
- Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.
- Wireless communication systems.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: framing the issues / James E. Katz, Mark A. Aakhus 1
- Part I Mobile communication: national and comparative perspectives 15
- 2 Finland: a mobile culture / Jukka-Pekka Puro 19
- 3 Israel: chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land / Amit Schejter, Akiba Cohen 30
- 4 Italy: stereotypes, true and false / Leopoldina Fortunati 42
- 5 Korea: personal meanings / Shin Dong Kim 63
- 6 United States: popular, pragmatic and problematic / Kathleen A. Robbins, Martha A. Turner 80
- 7 France: preserving the image / Christian Licoppe, Jean-Philippe Heurtin 94
- 8 The Netherlands and the USA compared / Enid Mante 110
- 9 Bulgaria: mobile phones as post-communist cultural icons / Valentin Varbanov 126
- Part II Private talk: interpersonal relations and micro-behavior 137
- 10 Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway / Richard Ling, Birgitte Yttri 139
- 11 Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi, Pirjo Rautiainen 170
- 12 Pretense of intimacy in France / Chantal De Gournay 193
- 13 Mobile phone consumption and concepts of personhood / Dawn Nafus, Karina Tracey 206
- Part III Public performance: social groups and structures 223
- 14 The challenge of absent presence / Kenneth J. Gergen 227
- 15 From mass society to perpetual contact: models of communication technologies in social context / James B. Rule 242
- 16 Mobiles and the Norwegian teen: identity, gender and class / Berit Skog 255
- 17 The telephone comes to a Filipino village / George Strom 274
- 18 Beginnings in the telephone / Emanuel A. Schegloff 284
- 19 Conclusion: making meaning of mobiles - a theory of Apparatgeist / James E. Katz, Mark A. Aakhus 301
- A On "Opening sequencing": a framing statement / Emanuel A. Schegloff 321
- B Opening sequencing / Emanuel A. Schegloff 326.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521807719
- 0521002664
- OCLC:
- 47667010
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