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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.

Contents:

Introduction / James E. Katz

DIGITAL DIVIDES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY

The mobile makes its mark / Lara Srivastava

Shrinking fourth world? mobiles, development, and inclusion / Jonathan Donner

Mobile traders and mobile phones in Ghana / Ragnhild Overå

Mobile networks: migrant workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng

Mobile communication in Mexico: policy and popular dimensions / Judith Mariscal and Carla Bonina

Reducing non-literacy as a barrier to mobile communication / Jan Chipchase

Health services and mobiles: a case from Egypt / Patricia N. Mechael

How the urban poor acquire and give meaning to the mobile phone / Lourdes M. Portus

SOCIALITY AND CO-PRESENCE

Always-on/always-on-you: The tethered self / Sherry Turkle

The mobile phone's ring / Christian Licoppe

Mobile technology and the body: apparatgeist, fashion and function / Scott Campbell

The mediation of ritual interaction via the mobile telephone / Richard S. Ling

Adjusting the volume: technology and multitasking in discourse control / Naomi S. Baron

Maintaining co-presence: tourists and mobile communication in New Zealand / Peter B. White and Naomi Rosh White

The social effects of Keitai and personal computer e-mail in Japan / Kakuko Miyata and Jeffrey Boase.

POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Mobile media and political collective action / Howard Rheingold

Mobile multimedia: Uses and social consequences / Ilpo Koskinen

Mobile communication and socio-political change in the Arab World / Mohammad Ibahrine

Locating the missing links of mobile communication in Japan: sociocultural influences on uses for children and elderly / On-Kwok Lai

The effects of mobile telephony on Singaporean society / Shahiraa Sahul Hameed

Mobile communication and the transformation of democratic process / Kenneth J. Gergen

CULTURE AND IMAGINATION

Cultural differences in communication technology use: adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel / Gustavo S. Mesch and Ilan Talmud

"Express yourself" and "Stay together": The middle-class Indian family / Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, Carolyn Wei

Non-developmental uses of mobile communication in Tanzania / Thomas Molony

Cultural studies of mobile communication / Gerard Goggin

Mobile music as environmental control and pro-social entertainment / James E. Katz, Katie M. Lever and Yi-Fan Chen

Supernatural mobile communication in The Philippines and Indonesia / Bart Barendregt and Raul Pertierra

Boom in India: mobile media and social consequences / Madanmohan Rao and Mira Desai

Mobile games and entertainment / James E. Katz and Sophia Krzys Acord

Online communities on the move: mobile play in Korea / Youn-ah Kang

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

Mainstreamed mobiles in daily life: perspectives and prospects / James E. Katz

Afterword: Manuel Castells.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29263-7

0-262-27681-X

1-4356-4903-6

OCLC:

233534588