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Handbook of mobile communication studies, edited by James E. Katz

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Handbook of mobile communication studies

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edited by James E. Katz

This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange

Introduction / James E. Katz -- DIGITAL DIVIDES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY -- The mobile makes its mark / Lara Srivastava -- Shrinking fourth world? mobiles, development, and inclusion / Jonathan Donner -- Mobile traders and mobile phones in Ghana / Ragnhild Overå -- Mobile networks: migrant workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng -- Mobile communication in Mexico: policy and popular dimensions / Judith Mariscal and Carla Bonina -- Reducing non-literacy as a barrier to mobile communication / Jan Chipchase -- Health services and mobiles: a case from Egypt / Patricia N. Mechael -- How the urban poor acquire and give meaning to the mobile phone / Lourdes M. Portus -- SOCIALITY AND CO-PRESENCE -- Always-on/always-on-you: The tethered self / Sherry Turkle -- The mobile phone's ring / Christian Licoppe -- Mobile technology and the body: apparatgeist, fashion and function / Scott Campbell -- The mediation of ritual interaction via the mobile telephone / Richard S. Ling -- Adjusting the volume: technology and multitasking in discourse control / Naomi S. Baron -- Maintaining co-presence: tourists and mobile communication in New Zealand / Peter B. White and Naomi Rosh White -- The social effects of Keitai and personal computer e-mail in Japan / Kakuko Miyata and Jeffrey BoasePOLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- Mobile media and political collective action / Howard Rheingold -- Mobile multimedia: Uses and social consequences / Ilpo Koskinen -- Mobile communication and socio-political change in the Arab World / Mohammad Ibahrine -- Locating the missing links of mobile communication in Japan: sociocultural influences on uses for children and elderly / On-Kwok Lai -- The effects of mobile telephony on Singaporean society / Shahiraa Sahul Hameed -- Mobile communication and the transformation of democratic process / Kenneth J. Gergen -- CULTURE AND IMAGINATION -- Cultural differences in communication technology use: adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel / Gustavo S. Mesch and Ilan Talmud -- "Express yourself" and "Stay together": The middle-class Indian family / Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, Carolyn Wei -- Non-developmental uses of mobile communication in Tanzania / Thomas Molony -- Cultural studies of mobile communication / Gerard Goggin -- Mobile music as environmental control and pro-social entertainment / James E. Katz, Katie M. Lever and Yi-Fan Chen -- Supernatural mobile communication in The Philippines and Indonesia / Bart Barendregt and Raul Pertierra -- Boom in India: mobile media and social consequences / Madanmohan Rao and Mira Desai -- Mobile games and entertainment / James E. Katz and Sophia Krzys Acord -- Online communities on the move: mobile play in Korea / Youn-ah Kang -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS -- Mainstreamed mobiles in daily life: perspectives and prospects / James E. Katz -- Afterword: Manuel Castells