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Moving cultures : mobile communication in everyday life / Andre H. Caron, Letizia Caronia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caron, André H.
- Standardized Title:
- Culture mobile. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication--Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Communication.
- Mobile communication systems--Social aspects.
- Mobile communication systems.
- Communication and culture.
- Communication--Social aspects.
- Technology and youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell phones and blackberries in their social and cultural lives.
- Contents:
- New social scenarios
- Speaking objects, acting words: new communication practices
- Life stories of technologies in everyday life: teenagers talking on their mobiles
- SMS in everyday life: ethnography of a secret language
- Intergenerational communication: changes, constants, and new models
- Mobile communication as social performance: new ethics, new politeness, new aesthetics.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Culture mobile.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [253]-262.
- ISBN:
- 9786612867019
- 9780773581210
- 0773581219
- 9781282867017
- 1282867016
- 9780773576575
- 0773576576
- OCLC:
- 923233802
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