Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media

by Goggin; Gerard

• ISBN13: 9780415989862
• ISBN10: 0415989868
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Reprising Mobile Theory
The Question of Mobile Media	p. 3
Intimate Connections: The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Boundaries	p. 9
Gender and the Mobile Phone	p. 23
Youth, Families, and the Politics of Generations
Children's Broadening Use of Mobile Phones	p. 37
Mobile Communication and Teen Emancipation	p. 50
Mobile Media and the Transformation of Family	p. 62
Purikura as a Social Management Tool	p. 73
Mobiles in the Field of Media
Mobile Media on Low-Cost Handsets: The Resiliency of Text Messaging among Small Enterprises in India (and Beyond)	p. 93
Innovations at the Edge: The Impact of Mobile Technologies on the Character of the Internet	p. 105
Media Contents in Mobiles: Comparing Video, Audio, and Text	p. 118
New Economics for the New Media	p. 131
Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media	p. 143
Renewing Media Forms
Back to the Future: The Past and Present of Mobile TV	p. 161
Net_Derive: Conceiving and Producing a Locative Media Artwork	p. 174
Mobile News in Chinese Newspaper Groups: A Case Study of Yunnan Daily Press Group	p. 187
Reinventing Newspapers in a Digital Era: The Mobile e-Paper	p. 202
Mobile Imaginings
Face to Face: Avatars and Mobile Identities	p. 219
Re-imagining Urban Space: Mobility, Connectivity, and a Sense of Place	p. 235
These Foolish Things: On Intimacy and Insignificance in Mobile Media	p. 252
Mobility, Memory, and Identity	p. 266
Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 291
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