ISBN:
0415989868
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0203884310
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9780415989862
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9780203884317
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 297 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in cultural and media studies 20
Parallel Title:
Print version Mobile Technologies : From Telecommunications to Media
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Cell phones Social aspects
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Communication and culture Technological innovations
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Social interaction Technological innovations
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Interpersonal communication Technological innovations
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Social aspects
Abstract:
Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, industry, and general readers
Description / Table of Contents:
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I Reprising Mobile Theory; 1 The Question of Mobile Media; AFTER TELECOMMUNICATIONS; CHALLENGES FOR FRAMING MOBILES AS MEDIA; NOTES; 2 Intimate Connections; BOUNDARIES OF TIME AND SPACE; PRACTICING THE FAMILY, PRACTICING TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE-PHONE STUDY: METHODS; MOBILE-PHONE STUDY: RESULTS; BALANCING LIFE AND WORK; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 3 Gender and the Mobile Phone; INTRODUCTION; GENDER, GENERATION, AND THE MOBILE PHONE; DOMESTIC SPHERE AND MOBILE PHONE; CONCLUSION; NOTES
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Youth, Families, and the Politics of Generations4 Children's Broadening Use of Mobile Phones; COMMUNICATIONS; DEALING WITH IMAGES; MUSIC ON THE MOBILE AND SHARING PRACTICES; GAMES AND BOREDOM; THE INTERNET AND TV ON THE MOBILE PHONE; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; 5 Mobile Communication and Teen Emancipation; INTRODUCTION: ADOLESCENCE AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION; THE EMANCIPATION OF TEENS AS A CRITICAL SOCIAL JUNCTURE; Leaving the Family of Orientation; Emancipation as a Process; Emancipation as a Consequence of Industrialization; The Peer Group as a Central Link in Emancipation
Description / Table of Contents:
TEENS' ADOPTION OF MOBILE PHONESMobile Communication and Teen-Parental Interaction; The Mobile Phone and Peer Interaction; INSTRUMENTAL USE OF THE MOBILE PHONE; EXPRESSIVE USE; THE MOBILE PHONE AND THE EXPLORATION OF DIFFERENT SIDES OF LIFE; CONCLUSION: THE MOBILE PHONE AS A TOOL IN THE EMANCIPATION OF TEENS; NOTES; 6 Mobile Media and the Transformation of Family; WHY FOCUS ON JAPAN?; TOWARD THE KEITAI -MANAGED FAMILY; PARENT SURVEILLANCE VIA KEITAI; MOM IN THE POCKET; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 7 Purikura as a Social Management Tool; PURIKURA IN CONTEXT; FIELDWORK; THE SOCIAL USES OF PURIKURA
Description / Table of Contents:
OverviewSharing Everyday Social Memories; Self-Expression; Peer Networks; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; Part III Mobiles in the Field of Media; 8 Mobile Media on Low-Cost Handsets; MOBILE USE BY SMALL AND INFORMAL BUSINESSES IN INDIA; SMS AS MOBILE MEDIA; EXAMPLES OF SMS-BASED LOW-COST MOBILE MEDIA APPLICATIONS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 9 Innovations at the Edge; INTRODUCTION; ARENAS OF INNOVATION; PHYSICAL SUBSTRUCTURE; SOCIAL SUBSTRUCTURE; MOBILE EXTENSIONS OF THE INTERNET; MIGRATION BETWEEN ARENAS; NOTES; 10 Media Contents in Mobiles; INTRODUCTION
Description / Table of Contents:
THE MOBILE PHONE-A MEDIUM IN ITSELFTHE RESEARCH QUESTIONS; ABOUT THE RESEARCH; THE CONTEXTS OF USE; THE MOST INTERESTING MEDIA CONTENTS IN MOBILES; MOBILE PRIME TIME; RELIABILITY OF DIFFERENT MEDIA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 11 New Economics for the New Media; MODEL 1: THE WELFARE MODEL (SPECIAL INDUSTRY); MODEL 2: THE COMPETITIVE MODEL (JUST ANOTHER INDUSTRY); MODEL 3: THE GROWTH MODEL (CIS AS INPUTS INTO THE BROADER ECONOMY); MODEL 4: THE INNOVATION MODEL; WHAT ROLE FOR NEW, MOBILE, AND INTERNET MEDIA?; NOTES; 12 Domesticating New Media; INTRODUCTION; MEDIA MOBILE
Description / Table of Contents:
DOMESTICATING NEW MEDIA: TWO EXAMPLES OF THE MULTITRADITIONS OF MOBILE MEDIA
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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