What is included with this book?
Introduction | p. 1 |
Perspectives on Technologies and ICTs | p. 3 |
Innovations and Visions | p. 3 |
Socially Relevant Groups | p. 5 |
The Experience of Technologies | p. 6 |
Domestication | p. 7 |
Reflection: The Meaning of Products | p. 8 |
The New Mobilities | p. 8 |
A History of Mobile Communications Research | p. 9 |
An Emerging Research Field | p. 9 |
Emerging Research Themes | p. 11 |
An Outline of the Following Chapters | p. 13 |
History and Industry | p. 17 |
A Brief History of Mobile Communications Technologies | p. 18 |
Consumption Histories | p. 29 |
The Relationships Between Technologies | p. 33 |
ICT Use: Evolution or Revolution? | p. 34 |
Mobile Technologies and Choices in Communications | p. 36 |
A Case Study in Communications Choices: Texting | p. 42 |
Origins and Trajectories: The Early History of an Innovation | p. 43 |
The Domestication of Texting? | p. 44 |
Social Consequences of Texting | p. 46 |
Public and Private Spaces | p. 51 |
Mobilities and the Transformation of the Public and Private Spheres | p. 52 |
Negotiating the Mobile Public and Private | p. 55 |
Cross-Cultural Norms and Personal Space | p. 63 |
The Regulation of Mobile Phone Behaviours | p. 68 |
Time | p. 73 |
Time, ICTs and Mobile Communications | p. 73 |
Time and Mobile Communications | p. 76 |
Mobile Phones and the Changing Organization of Time | p. 78 |
Mobile Communications and the Experience of Time | p. 82 |
The Experience of Meeting: A Case Study | p. 84 |
Social Networks and Peer Relationships | p. 87 |
Communities, Social Capital, Social Networks and ICTs | p. 88 |
The Strength of Mobile Ties | p. 91 |
Young People and Social Networks | p. 96 |
Status and Cultural Value | p. 98 |
Group Identification and Differentiation | p. 100 |
The Management of Availability | p. 101 |
Power Relations | p. 107 |
Dimensions of Power | p. 108 |
Power and the Social Shaping of ICTs | p. 110 |
Power and the Social Shaping of Mobile Phones | p. 112 |
Mobile Phones, Children and Their Parents | p. 116 |
Ownership | p. 118 |
Children's Use and Parental Monitoring | p. 120 |
The Negotiation of Independence | p. 121 |
Peer Relations and Organizational Networks | p. 122 |
Mobile Images: The Cameraphone | p. 127 |
Introduction of the Camera Phone | p. 128 |
Youth and Mobile Images: Content, Sharing, Posting | p. 133 |
Issues Related to Images: A British Case Study | p. 136 |
Media Producers and Changes in Photography | p. 140 |
Applying Frameworks, Going Forward | p. 145 |
The Mobile Internet and Mobile Television | p. 146 |
Analysing Emerging Technology | p. 147 |
Going Forward | p. 152 |
Annotated Guide to Further Reading | p. 153 |
Questions and Exercises | p. 159 |
Notes | p. 165 |
Bibliography | p. 169 |
Index | p. 187 |
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