Handbook of mobile communication studies / edited by James E. Katz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, James Everett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell phones--Social aspects.

Cell phones.

Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.

Wireless communication systems.

Interpersonal communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Interpersonal communication.

Communication and culture.

Technological innovations.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

ix, 472 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Mobile communication studies

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]

Contents:

Digital Divides and Social Mobility 13

2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark / Lara Srivastava 15

3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion / Jonathan Donner 29

4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana / Ragnhild Overa 43

5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China / Pui-Iam Law, Yinni Peng 55

6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions / Judith Mariscal, Carla Marisa Bonina 65

7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication / Jan Chipchase 79

8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt / Patricia Mechael 91

9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone / Lourdes M. Portus 105

Sociality and Co-presence 119

10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self / Sherry Turkle 121

11 The Mobile Phone's Ring / Christian Licoppe 139

12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function / Scott Campbell 153

13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone / Richard S. Ling 165

14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control / Naomi S. Baron 177

15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand / Peter B. White, Naomi Rosh White 195

16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase, Barry Wellman 209

Politics and Social Change 223

17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action / Howard Rheingold 225

18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences / Ilpo Koskinen 241

19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World / Mohammad Ibahrine 257

20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly / On-Kwok Lai 273

21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society / Shahiraa Sahul Hameed 285

22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process / Kenneth J. Gergen 297

Culture and Imagination 311

23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel / Gustavo Mesch, Ilan Talmud 313

24 "Express Yourself" and "Stay Together": The Middle-Class Indian Family / Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, Carolyn Wei 325

25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania / Thomas Molony 339

26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication / Gerard Goggin 353

27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment / James E. Katz, Katie M. Lever, Yi-Fan Chen 367

28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia / Bart Barendregt, Raul Pertierra 377

29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences / Madanmohan Rao, Mira Desai 389

30 Mobile Games and Entertainment / James E. Katz, Sophia Krzys Acord 403

31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea / Youn-ah Kang 419

Conclusions and Future Prospects 431

32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects / James E. Katz 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262113120

0262113120

OCLC:

79861059