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Handbook of mobile communication studies / edited by James E. Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- 1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- 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:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262276818
- 026227681X
- 9781435649033
- 1435649036
- OCLC:
- 233534588
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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