Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media

✍ Scribed by Leslie Haddon, Nicola Green

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Series: Berg New Media Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The cellphone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life.

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This communications medium has had an immense social and cultural impact and continues to evolve. Talking, texting, photographing, videoing, connecting to a network of other media – the cellphone now seems essential. But, beyond the ways in which it has actively restructured our daily lives, the cellphone has changed our sense of ourselves and the way we see the world. The relationship between public and private space, how we view time and space, how we rely on and negotiate social networks – all are increasingly centred on this small piece of technology.

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Mobile Communications presents a succinct, challenging, and accessible overview of the transformations and challenges presented by this most personal, yet most overlooked, technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Berg - Mobile Communications (2009) (ATTiCA)......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
HISTORY AND INDUSTRY......Page 26
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES......Page 27
CONSUMPTION HISTORIES......Page 38
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGIES......Page 42
ICT USE: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?......Page 43
MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES AND CHOICES IN COMMUNICATIONS......Page 45
A CASE STUDY IN COMMUNICATIONS CHOICES: TEXTING......Page 51
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES......Page 60
MOBILITIES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERES......Page 61
NEGOTIATING THE MOBILE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE......Page 64
CROSS-CULTURAL NORMS AND PERSONAL SPACE......Page 72
THE REGULATION OF MOBILE PHONE BEHAVIOURS......Page 77
TIME, ICTS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS......Page 82
TIME AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS......Page 85
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME......Page 91
THE EXPERIENCE OF MEETING: A CASE STUDY......Page 93
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PEER RELATIONSHIPS......Page 96
COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ICTS......Page 97
THE STRENGTH OF MOBILE TIES......Page 100
YOUNG PEOPLE AND SOCIAL NETWORKS......Page 105
THE MANAGEMENT OF AVAILABILITY......Page 110
POWER RELATIONS......Page 116
DIMENSIONS OF POWER......Page 117
POWER AND THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF ICTS......Page 119
POWER AND THE SOCIAL SHAPING OF MOBILE PHONES......Page 121
MOBILE PHONES, CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS......Page 125
PEER RELATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS......Page 131
MOBILE IMAGES: THE CAMERA PHONE......Page 136
INTRODUCTION OF THE CAMERA PHONE......Page 137
YOUTH AND MOBILE IMAGES: CONTENT, SHARING, POSTING......Page 142
ISSUES RELATED TO IMAGES: A BRITISH CASE STUDY......Page 145
MEDIA PRODUCERS AND CHANGES IN PHOTOGRAPHY......Page 149
APPLYING FRAMEWORKS, GOING FORWARD......Page 154
THE MOBILE INTERNET AND MOBILE TELEVISION......Page 155
ANALYSING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES......Page 156
GOING FORWARD......Page 161
ANNOTATED GUIDE TO FURTHER READING......Page 162
QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES......Page 168
NOTES......Page 174
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 178
INDEX......Page 196