Mobile Technology and Society Book

The recently published Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies looks like it has a lot of interesting pieces in it.

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 Marisa Bonina
Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication – Jan Chipchase
Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt – Patricia 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 – Rich 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, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman

Politics and Social Change
Mobile Media and Political Collective Action – Howard Rheingold
Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences – Ilpo Koskinen
Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World – Mohammad Ibahrine
Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly – On-Kwok Lai
The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society – Shahiraa Sahul Hameed

Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process – Kenneth Gergen

Culture and Imagination
Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel – Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud
“Express Yourself” and “Stay Together”: The Middle-Class Indian Family – Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson and Carolyn Y. Wei
Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania – Thomas Molony
Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication – Gerard Goggin
Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial 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

Link: Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies (mit.edu)

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