Mobile Phone Cultures

by Goggin; Gerard

• ISBN13: 9780415425308
• ISBN10: 0415425301
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations - tracing the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender, sexuality, religion, communication style - and explore the locations of mobile phone culture in modernity, urban settings and even transnational families. This book also provides a guide to convergent mobile phone culture, with fresh, innovative accounts of text messaging, Blackberry, camera phones, moblogging and mobile adventures in television. Mobile Phone Culture opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology. Previously published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Mobile Phone Cultures
Imagining Mobiles
The Construction of the Mobile Experience: the Role of Advertising Campaigns in the Appropriation of Mobile Phone Technologies	p. 1
Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone: a Study of Social Change with the Diffusion of Mobile Phones, Using a Social Representations Framework	p. 13
Illusions of Balance and Control in an Always-on Environment: a Case Study of BlackBerry Users	p. 28
Shaping Mobiles
Feminizing the Mobile: Gender Scripting of Mobiles in North America	p. 42
'What Hath God Wrought?' Considering How Religious Communities Culture (or Kosher) the Cell Phone	p. 53
Pocket Technospaces: the Bodily Incorporation of Mobile Media	p. 66
Becoming the Milky Way: Mobile Phones and Actor Networks at a U2 Concert	p. 77
Locations of Mobile Culture
Snapshots of Almost Contact: the Rise of Camera Phone Practices and a Case Study in Seoul, Korea	p. 86
'Hol' Awn Mek a Answer mi Cellular': Sex, Sexuality and the Cellular Phone in Urban Jamaica	p. 98
Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging: Reinventing Transnational Mothering	p. 111
Socio-cultural Aspects of Mobile Communication Technologies in Asia and the Pacific: a Discussion of the Recent Literature	p. 124
Mobile Image and Text
Picture This: the Impact of Mobile Camera Phones on Personal Photographic Practices	p. 135
The Cameraphone and Online Image Sharing	p. 145
Text-messaging Cultures of College Girls in Hong Kong: SMS as Resources for Achieving Intimacy and Gift-exchange with Multiple Functions	p. 158
Mobiles Into Media: Premium Rate SMS and the Adaptation of Television to Interactive Communication Cultures	p. 171
Index	p. 185
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