Thumb Culture The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society
Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural ef...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
2005.
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| Edición: | 1. Aufl., digitale Originalausgabe |
| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
Kultur- und Medientheorie. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44551770*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Is the cell phone undermining the social order? Understanding mobile technology from a sociological perspective / Geser, Hans
- The social and economic implications of mobile telephony in Rwanda: An ownership/access typology / Donner, Jonathan
- Postal presence: A case study of mobile customisation and gender in Melbourne / Hjorth, Larissa
- The age of the thumb: A cultural reading of mobile technologies from Asia / Bell, Genevieve
- Communication problems / Haddon, Leslie
- From teenage life to Victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life / Harper, Richard
- Emotional attachment and mobile phones / Vincent, Jane
- The mobile phone and the dynamic between private and public communication: Results of an international exploratory study / Höflich, Joachim R.
- The role of interspace in sustaining identity / Hulme, Michael ; Truch, Anna
- The mobile phone as technological artefact / Fortunati, Leopoldina
- The mobile telephone as a return to unalienated communication / Nyíri, Kristóf
- Mobile communication and the transformation of daily life: The next phase of research on mobiles / Katz, James E.
- Facing the future, changing customer needs / Schmolze, Raimund
- Loading mobile phones in a multi-option society / Gross, Peter ; Bertschi, Stefan
- Mobile mania, mobile manners / Srivastava, Lara
- Your life in snapshots: Mobile weblogs (moblogs) / Döring, Nicola ; Gundolf, Axel
- Designing the future: Fables from the mobile telecoms industry / Watts, Laura
- The future of mobile in the 3G era / Golding, Paul
- Mythology and mobile data / Foggin, Nick
- People, mobiles and society. Concluding insights from an international expert survey / Glotz, Peter ; Bertschi, Stefan
- Notes on Contributors
- Backmatter.
