Perpetual contact : mobile communication, private talk, public performance / edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katz, James Everett, editor.

Aakhus, Mark A., 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cell phones--Social aspects.

Cell phones.

Wireless communication systems--Social aspects.

Wireless communication systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The spread of mobile communication, most obtrusively as cell phones but increasingly in other wireless devices, is affecting people's lives and relationships to a previously unthought-of extent. Mobile phones, which are fast becoming ubiquitous, affect either directly or indirectly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. They have transformed social practices and changed the way we do business, yet surprisingly little serious academic work has been done on them. This 2002 book, with contributions from the foremost researchers in the field, studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society from a social scientific perspective. Providing a comprehensive overview of mobile phones and social interaction, it comprises an introduction covering the key issues, a series of unique national studies and a final section examining specific issues.

Contents:

Introduction : Framing the issues / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus

Finland : a mobile culture / Jukka-Pekka Puro

Israel : chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land / Amit Schejter and Akiba Cohen

Italy : stereotypes, true and false / Leopoldina Fortunati

Korea : personal meanings / Shin Dong Kim

United States : popular, pragmatic and problematic / Kathleen A. Robbins and Martha A. Turner

France : preserving the image / Christian Licoppe and Jean-Philippe Heurtin

The Netherlands and the USA compared / Enid Mante

Bulgaria : mobile phones as post-communist cultural icons / Valentin Varbanov

Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway / Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri

Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi and Pirjo Rautiainen

Pretense of intimacy in France / Chantal de Gournay

Mobile phone consumption and concepts of personhood / Dawn Nafus and Karina Tracey

The challenge of absent presence / Kenneth J. Gergen

From mass society to perpetual contact : models of communication technologies in social context / James B. Rule

Mobiles and the Norwegian teen : identity, gender and class / Berit Skog

The telephone comes to a Filipino village / Georg Strøm

Beginnings in the telephone / Emanuel A. Schegloff

Conclusion : Making meaning of mobiles

a theory of Apparatgeist / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus

On "opening sequencing" : a framing statement ; Opening sequencing / Emanuel A. Schegloff.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12462-X

1-280-43045-1

0-511-17616-3

0-511-04190-X

0-511-15689-8

0-511-32943-1

0-511-48947-1

0-511-04452-6

OCLC:

475916922