β Scribed by Colston Sanger (auth.), Lynne Hamill, Amparo Lasen, Dan Diaper PhD, MBCS (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Why have mobile phones so quickly become part of our everyday lives? This book brings together the perspectives of key researchers in the area to explore lessons on social shaping, examining what can be learnt from the adoption of mobile devices that can be applied to other, newer, digital technologies.
Forecasting the impact of new technology is always difficult. Occasionally demand is underestimated, but more often it is overestimated, and at great cost. Digital technology is unlike anything that has gone before, making it particularly difficult to understand its implications for businesses, public services and society in general. By looking at what has happened in the past and what is happening now, and offering methods of using this knowledge to look forward, this book will contribute to reducing expensive forecasting errors in the future.
Key reading for all those involved with the future of mobile communications, this book is a valuable resource, particularly for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students on Mobile Technology courses, practitioners, and researchers working in mobile communications, CSCW and HCI.
This volume is a sequel to Brown et al: Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age, also in the CSCW series.
"This book presents a rich insight into how and why the mobile has become so important in todayβs society. It explores the strong emotional attachment that people have to these devices, and argues that it is people and not the technology that developers must put at the heart of future mobile offerings. A valuable book for industry and academics alike."
Dr Phil Gosset, Vodafone Group R&D
Introduction: Digital Revolution - Mobile Revolution?....Pages 1-8
Mobile Telephony: Realising the Dream of Ideal Communication?....Pages 9-28
History Repeating? A Comparison of the Launch and Uses of Fixed and Mobile Phones....Pages 29-60
Kids will be Kids: The Role of Mobiles in Teenage Life....Pages 61-74
An SMS History....Pages 75-91
Emotional Attachment to Mobile Phones: An Extraordinary Relationship....Pages 93-104
Textmates and Text Circles: Insights into the Social Ecology of SMS Text Messaging....Pages 105-118
Appropriating Tools and Shaping Activities: The Use of PDAs in the Workplace....Pages 119-139
Different Directions in the Mobile Internet: Analysing Mobile Internet Services in Japan and Europe....Pages 141-160
Context Perspectives for Scenarios and Research Development in Mobile Systems....Pages 161-194
Instant Messaging and Presence Services: Mobile Future, CSCW and Ethnography....Pages 195-214
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Communication Networks
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