ISBN:
9780262276818
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (485 pages)
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Handbook of mobile communication studies
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Cell phones -- Social aspects
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Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects
;
Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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Communication and culture
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Electronic books
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Cell phones ; Social aspects
;
Communication and culture
;
Interpersonal communication ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects
;
Wireless communication systems ; Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Mobile Telekommunikation
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Kommunikation
;
Kultur
Abstract:
Experts analyze how mobile communication is changing daily life and local culture around the world, in both industrialized and developing countries.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark -- 3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion -- 4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana -- 5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China -- 6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions -- 7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication -- 8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt -- 9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone -- 10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self -- 11 The Mobile Phone's Ring -- 12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function -- 13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone -- 14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control -- 15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand -- 16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan -- 17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action -- 18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences -- 19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World -- 20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly -- 21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society -- 22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process -- 23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel -- 24 ''Express Yourself'' and ''Stay Together'': The Middle-Class Indian Family -- 25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania -- 26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication -- 27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment -- 28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia.
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