Perpetual contact : mobile communication, private talk, public performance / edited by James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: xxiv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: 36 ISBN: 0521807719; 9780521807715; 0521002664; 9780521002660Subject(s): Cell phones -- Social aspects | Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects | Cellular telephones -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: AufsatzsammlungDDC classification: 302.235 LOC classification: HE9713 | .P47 2002Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Most papers herein were first presented at a workshop convened at Rutgers
.University, New Brunswick, December 9-10, 1999"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Perpetual Contact studies the impact of the mobile phone on contemporary society. Providing an overview of mobile phones and social interaction, the book covers key issues, contains a series of national studies, and examines specific
.issues
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