| Description |
ix, 190 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Imagining mobiles . 1. The construction of the mobile experience : the role of advertising campaigns in the appropriation of mobile phone technologies -- 2. Social thinking and the mobile phone : a study of social change with the diffusion of mobile phones, using a social representations framework -- 3. Illusions of balance and control in an always-on environment : a case study of BlackBerry users -- Shaping mobiles. 4. Feminizing the mobile : gender scripting of mobiles in North America -- 5. 'What hath God wrought?' Considering how religious communities culture (or Kosher) the cell phone -- 6. Pocket technospaces : the bodily incorporation of mobile media -- 7. Becoming the Milky Way : mobile phones and actor networks at a U2 concert -- Locations of mobile culture. 8. Snapshots of 'almost' contact : the rise of camera phone practices and a case study in Seoul, Korea -- 9. 'Hol' awn mek a answer mi cellular' : sex, sexuality and the cellular phone in urban Jamaica - 10. Overseas Filipino workers and text messaging : reinventing transnational mothering -- 11. Socio-cultural aspects of mobile communication technologies in Asia and the Pacific : a discussion of the recent literature -- Mobile image and text. 12. Picture this : the impact of mobile camera phones on personal photographic practices -- 13. The cameraphone and online image sharing -- 14. Text-messaging cultures of college girls in Hong Kong : SMS as resources for achieving intimacy and gift-exchange with multiple functions -- 15. Mobiles into media : premium rate SMS and the adaptation of television to interactive communication cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cell phones -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Goggin, Gerard, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780415425308 (hbk.) |
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0415425301 (hbk.) |
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