Japanese Cybercultures (Asia's Transformations) Mark Mclelland Routledge, 2003 After English, Japanese is the most widely used language on the Internet. This is the first book to analyze the different applications and uses of the Internet in Japan. Introductory chapters focus on the development of the Internet in Japan, the online dynamics of Japanese language use and the differing ways in which broad groups such as men, women and students use the Internet. Other chapters ...             Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life4 reviews The MIT Press, 2005 an extraordinarily important collection + you can read for sociology or business + Great Content! A little hard to read If you work in the mobile communications space and you aren't Japanese, you probably ought to have a copy of this book. It provides a wealth of data and references on Japanese mobile phone use that have been hidden behind the language barrier for too long. (NB: This is sociology and anthropology ...             The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) Springer, 2005 SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as ...             The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (Digital Formations) Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both ...             Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance1 review Cambridge University Press, 2002 A Sociological Analysis of Mobile Communications Published in 2001, this book is a collection of twenty-one papers submitted by research-oriented writers from both the academic and corporate worlds. The papers discuss aspects of mobile voice and data communication adoption and use and the impact of this technology on various societies. Some of ...             Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything!7 reviews Paul Levinson Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 Levinson is a McLuhan for the 21st Century + very easy read + Good book but not what I had in mind. + Clear, concise examination of cellphones in society.             New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion1 review Rich Ling The MIT Press, 2008 Social Cohesion and the Ritual Pros: Cutting edge research Great concept and a quick read Cons: Reads more like a term paper.             Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone1 review Jon Agar Totem Books, 2005 Accessible & Comprehensive history of the mobile phone Where did mobile phones come from? What makes them so attractive? Why have they come to represent a dominant part of our everyday lives? Jon Agar's investigation into the origins and impact of mobile phones on a global scale is an important and necessary contribution to research in this area. ...             Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003 Edited volume explores new technologies' effects on human beings. For scholars & adv students in communication & technology, human-computer interaction, gender studies, social psychology, design, and other areas.             Mobile Phone Culture Gerard Goggin Routledge, 2008 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, ...             The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication1 review Heather Horst, Daniel Miller Berg Publishers, 2006 Important ethnographic study of cell phones In a global environment where mobile technologies are making impressive and influential in-roads into many societis and cultures, this ethnographically based study of the impact of cell phones on low-income populations in Jamaica is a valuable piece of scholarship. Based on two-years of ...             Wireless World Springer, 2001 Mobile phones are the most successful computer-based consumer product of the age and yet very little is known about how mobile technology is changing the way people interact and cooperate with each other, and how this change can be analysed. For the first time, Wireless World brings together experts from different disciplines to explore the social factors that are shaping the wireless world and ...             Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies The MIT Press, 2008 Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly adopted new technology in the world: more than one of every three people worldwide possesses a mobile phone. This volume offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Leading scholars ...             Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology1 review Transaction Publishers, 2006 An intriguing collection Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have predicted physical and emotional links between robot and human for decades, also sharing fears of a dehumanized future as a result. Katz gathers articles that address these concepts, considering if computer anxiety is creating more problems ...             Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life James Katz Transaction Publishers, 2006 In this timely volume, James E. Katz, a leading authority on social consequences of communication technology, analyzes the way new mobile telecommunications affect daily life both in the United States and around the world. "Magic in the Air" is the most wide-ranging analysis of mobile communication to date. Katz investigates the spectrum of social aspects of the cell phone's impact on society and ...             Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) Springer, 2005 This book surveys some of the broader issues associated with the adoption & use of mobile communication, & explores developing areas of inquiry. Mobile communications are looked at in the context of other types of mediated interaction, demonstrating the uniqueness of this form of communication & how it is influencing the renegotiation of the social sphere. The book considers how mobile ...             Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life Gerard Goggin Routledge, 2006 Cell phones and mobile technologies are omnipresent in everyday life, yet the cultural implications of mobile phones have been neglected. This book aims to fill this gap, providing the first comprehensive, accessible, and international introduction to cell phone culture and theory. It offers a clear yet sophisticated overview of mobile telecommunications, putting the technology in historical and ...             The Mobile Society Berg Publishers, 2007 The impact of cell phones on the way we live is undeniable; the precise nature of this impact is less certain. How are cell phones changing our environments? What is their impact on society? Could these phones be anti-social, even though their function is to connect people? These are some of the key issues that the book addresses. The Mobile Society considers the ways in which the cell phone ...             Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution and Global Politics)2 reviews Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, ... The MIT Press, 2006 Good starting point The book provides a global view of mobile communication technologies penetration, adoption and use. It is global because of the widespread deployment of such technologies worldwide, as the authors claim. For that, both qualitative (especially case studies) and quantitative studies are used as a ...             The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices (Mobile Communication) Transaction Publishers, 2008 One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change, human ...