Bibliograph

Perpetual contact, mobile communication, private talk, public performance, edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus

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Perpetual contact, mobile communication, private talk, public performance, edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Perpetual contact

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

56325372

Responsibility statement

edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

mobile communication, private talk, public performance

Summary

The spread of mobile communication, most obtrusively as cell phones but increasingly in other wireless devices, is affecting people's lives and relationships to a previously unthought-of extent. Mobile phones, which are fast becoming ubiquitous, affect either directly or indirectly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. They have transformed social practices and changed the way we do business, yet surprisingly little serious academic work has been done on them. This 2002 book, with contributions from the foremost researchers in the field, studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society from a social scientific perspective. Providing a comprehensive overview of mobile phones and social interaction, it comprises an introduction covering the key issues, a series of unique national studies and a final section examining specific issues.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : Framing the issues / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- Finland : a mobile culture / Jukka-Pekka Puro -- Israel : chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land / Amit Schejter and Akiba Cohen -- Italy : stereotypes, true and false / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Korea : personal meanings / Shin Dong Kim -- United States : popular, pragmatic and problematic / Kathleen A. Robbins and Martha A. Turner -- France : preserving the image / Christian Licoppe and Jean-Philippe Heurtin -- The Netherlands and the USA compared / Enid Mante -- Bulgaria : mobile phones as post-communist cultural icons / Valentin Varbanov -- Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway / Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri -- Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi and Pirjo Rautiainen -- Pretense of intimacy in France / Chantal de Gournay -- Mobile phone consumption and concepts of personhood / Dawn Nafus and Karina Tracey -- The challenge of absent presence / Kenneth J. Gergen -- From mass society to perpetual contact : models of communication technologies in social context / James B. Rule -- Mobiles and the Norwegian teen : identity, gender and class / Berit Skog --The telephone comes to a Filipino village / Georg Strøm -- Beginnings in the telephone / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Conclusion : Making meaning of mobiles -- a theory of Apparatgeist / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- On "opening sequencing" : a framing statement ; Opening sequencing / Emanuel A. Schegloff

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