Synopses & Reviews
In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia.
Synopsis
Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, industry, and general readers.
Table of Contents
The question of mobile media / Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth -- Intimate connections : the impact of the mobile phone on work/life boundaries / Judy Wajcman, Michael Bittman, and Jude Brown -- Gender and the mobile phone / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Children's broadening use of mobile phones / Leslie Haddon and Jane Vincent -- Mobile communication and teen emancipation / Rich Ling -- Mobile media and the transformation of family / Misa Matsuda -- Purikura as a social management tool / Daisuke Okabe ... [et al.] -- Mobile media on low-cost handsets : the resiliency of text messaging among small enterprises in India (and beyond) / Jonathan Donner -- Innovations at the edge : the impact of mobile technologies on the character of the Internet / Harmeet Sawnhey -- Media contents in mobiles : comparing video, audio, and text / Virpi Oksman -- New economics for the new media / Stuart Cunningham and Jason Potts -- Domesticating new media : a discussion on locating mobile media / Larissa Hjorth -- Back to the future : the past and present of mobile TV / Gabriele Balbi and Benedetta Prario -- Net-d