| Description |
ix, 472 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| 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 -- |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Cell phones -- Social aspects.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects. |
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Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects.
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Wireless communication systems. |
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Social aspects. |
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Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Interpersonal communication. |
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Technological innovations. |
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Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
| Added Author |
Katz, James Everett.
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| ISBN |
9780262113120 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0262113120 hardcover alkaline paper |
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