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HANDBOOK OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION STUDIES 2008 (H) ~限量供應~
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Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly adopted new technology in the world: more than one of every three people worldwide possesses a mobile phone. This volume offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Leading scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange, from the "aspirational consumption" of middle class families in India to the belief in parts of Africa and Asia that mobile phones can communicate with the dead.
The contributors explore the ways mobile communication profoundly affects the tempo, structure, and process of daily life around the world. They discuss the impact of mobile communication on social networks, other communication strategies, traditional forms of social organization, and political activities. They consider how quickly miraculous technologies come to seem ordinary and even necessary--and how ordinary technology comes to seem mysterious and even miraculous. The chapters cut across social issues and geographical regions; they highlight use by the elite and the masses, utilitarian and expressive functions, and political and operational consequences. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how mobile communication has affected the quality of life in both exotic and humdrum settings, and how it increasingly occupies center stage in people’s lives around the world.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction
James E. Katz 1
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-lam Law and Yinni Peng 55
6 Mobile Communication in Mexico
Policy and Popular Dimensions
Judith Mariscal and 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
Rich 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 and Naomi Rosh White 195
16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan
Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase and 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 Gergen 297
Culture and Imagination 311
23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use
Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel
Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud 313
24 "Express Yourself" and "Stay Together"
The Middle-Class Indian Family
Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson and Carolyn Y. 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 and Yi-Fan Chen 367
28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia
Bart Barendregt and Raul Pertierra 377
29 Boom in India
Mobile Media and Social Consequences
Madanmohan Rao and Mira Desai 389
30 Mobile Games and Entertainment
James E. Katz and 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
Afterword
Assisted by Manuel Castells 447
About the Editor and Authors 453
Index 459 |
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