Handbook Of Mobile Communication Studies

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

By JAMES E. KATZ (Editor)

ISBN 9780262113120

Pages 488

Year 2008

Edition 0

Publisher MIT PRESS

Subject ENGINEERING

~~₹ 4950.00~~ ₹ 1980.00

Description

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.

About Author(s)

James E. Katz is Chair of the Department of Communication at Rutgers University and director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies. He is the author of Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life and coauthor of Social Consequences of Internet Use (MIT Press, 2002).

Content

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

Digital Divides and Social Mobility

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

Sociality and Co-presence

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 f Ritual Interactionn 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

Politics and Social Change

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

Culture and Imagination

23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use:Adolesent Jews and Arabs in Israel

24 "Express Yourself" and "Stay Togrther": The Middle-Class Indian Family

25 Nondevelopment 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

29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences

30 Mobile Games and Entertainment

31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea

Conclusions and Future Prospects

32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Lie: Prespectives and Prospects

Afterword

About the Editor and Authors

Index

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