Mobile Communications Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere [Paperback]

Research Questions for the Evolving Communications Landscape.- Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the TheoryTechnology Relation.- Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of WirelineWireless Relationship.- Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communications Public Meaning.- Behavioral Changes at the Mobile Workplace: A Symbolic Interactionistic Approach.- Being Mobile with the Mobile: Cellular Telephony and Renegotiations of Public Transport as Public Sphere.- Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-placement of Social Contact.- Phone Talk.- Mobile Camera Phones: A New Form of Being Together in Daily Interpersonal Communication.- Tell Me About Your Mobile and Ill Tell You Who You Are: Israelis Talk About Themselves.- Mobile Telephone and the Presentation of Self.- Surprisingly, Nobody Tried to Caution Her: Perceptions of Intentionality and the Role of Social Responsibility in the Public Use of Mobile Phones.- Changing Learning and Teaching Cultures?.- Mobile Phone Addiction.- Does Personality Affect Peoples Attitude Towards Mobile Phone Use in Public Places?.- Tethered or Mobile? Use of Away Messages in Instant Messaging by American College Students.- Language Use in Swedish Mobile Text Messaging.- The Sociolinguistics of SMS: An Analysis of SMS Use by a Random Sample of Norwegians.- The Construction of Symbolic Values of the Mobile Phone in the Hong Kong Chinese Print Media.- Instrumentality Challenged: The Adoption of a Mobile Parking Service.- Relationship Deepening Through Mobile and Interactive Services.- The Integration of Mobile Alerts into Everyday Life.- The Wired  and Wireless  Japanese: Webphones, PCs and Social Networks.

Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere surveys some of the broader issues associated with the adoption and use of mobile communication, and explores developing areas of inquiry. Mobile communications are looked at in the context of other types of mediated interacl37