Mobile Technologies From Telecommunications to Media [Paperback]

In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia.

Part I: Reprising Mobile Theory  Chapter 1: The Question of Mobile Media Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth  Chapter 2: Intimate Connections: The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work Life Boundaries Judy Wajcman, Michael Bittman and Jude Brown  Chapter 3: Gender and the Mobile Phone  Leopoldina Fortunati  Part II: Youth, Families, and the Politics of Generations  Chapter 4: Childrens Broadening Use of Mobile Phones Leslie Haddon and Jane Vincent  Chapter 5: Mobile Communication and Teen Emancipation Rich Ling  Chapter 6: Mobile Media and the Transformation of Family Misa Matsuda  Chapter 7: Purikura as a Social Management Tool Daisuke Okabe, Mizuko Ito, Aico Shimizu and Jan Chipchase  Part III: Mobiles in the Field of Media  Chapter 8: Mobile Media on Low-Cost Handsets: The Resiliency of Text Messaging among Small Enterprises in India (and Beyond) Jonathan Donner  Chapter 9: Innovations at the Edge: The Impact of Mobile Technologies on the Character of the Internet Harmeet Sawnhey&l£å