ABSTRACT

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.

part I|34 pages

Reprising Mobile Theory

chapter 2|14 pages

Intimate Connections

The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work/Life Boundaries

chapter 3|12 pages

Gender and the Mobile Phone

part II|55 pages

Youth, Families, and the Politics of Generations

part III|67 pages

Mobiles in the Field of Media

chapter 8|12 pages

Mobile Media on Low-Cost Handsets

The Resiliency of Text Messaging Among Small Enterprises in India (and Beyond)

chapter 9|13 pages

Innovations at the Edge

The Impact of Mobile Technologies on the Character of the Internet

chapter 10|13 pages

Media Contents in Mobiles

Comparing Video, Audio, and Text

chapter 12|15 pages

Domesticating New Media

A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media

part IV|57 pages

Renewing Media Forms

chapter 13|13 pages

Back to the Future

The Past and Present of Mobile TV

chapter 14|13 pages

Net_Dérive

Conceiving and Producing a Locative Media Artwork

chapter 15|15 pages

Mobile News in Chinese Newspaper Groups

A Case Study of Yunnan Daily Press Group

chapter 16|14 pages

Reinventing Newspapers in a Digital Era

The Mobile e-Paper

part V|65 pages

Mobile Imaginings

chapter 17|16 pages

Face to Face

Avatars and Mobile Identities

chapter 18|17 pages

Re-imagining Urban Space

Mobility, Connectivity, and a Sense of Place

chapter 19|14 pages

These Foolish Things

On Intimacy and Insignificance in Mobile Media

chapter 20|16 pages

Mobility, Memory, and Identity