The Dimensions of Mobile Communication -- Introduction / Rich Ling, Per E. Pedersen -- Research Questions for the Evolving Communications Landscape / Leslie Haddon -- Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the Theory-Technology Relation / Steve Woolgar -- Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of Wireline-Wireless Relationship / Harmeet Sawhney -- Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication's Public Meaning / James E. Katz, Satomi Sugiyama -- The Public and Private Spaces -- Introduction / Alex Taylor -- Behavioral Changes at the Mobile Workplace: A Symbolic Interactionistic Approach / Tom Erik Julsrud -- Being Mobile with the Mobile: Cellular Telephony and Renegotiations of Public Transport as Public Sphere / Fernando Paragas -- Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-placement of Social Contact / Mizuko Ito -- Phone Talk / Alex Taylor -- Mobile Camera Phones: A New Form of "Being Together" in Daily Interpersonal Communication / Carole Riviere -- Tell Me About Your Mobile and I'll Tell You Who You Are: Israelis Talk About Themselves / Dafna Lemish, Akiba A. Cohen -- Mobile Telephone and the Presentation of Self / Leopoldina Fortunati -- The Psychological Dimensions of Mobile Communication -- Introduction / Steve Love -- "Surprisingly, Nobody Tried to Caution Her": Perceptions of Intentionality and the Role of Social Responsibility in the Public Use of Mobile Phones / Kathleen M. Cumiskey -- Changing Learning and Teaching Cultures? / Louise Mifsud -- Mobile Phone Addiction / Woong Ki Park
Summary
Surveying the issues associated with the adoption and use of mobile communication, this book explores developing areas of inquiry. It provides an analysis of specific areas, including: the psychological dimensions of mobile communication; the linguistics of mobile communication; and the understanding of mobile communication's commercialisation