Thumb culture : the meaning of mobile phones for society / / edited by Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke |
Autore | Glotz Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296) |
Disciplina | 621.38456 |
Collana | Kultur- und Medientheorie |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - Social aspects
Cell phones - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Mobile Phone
Mobile Media Communication Culture Society Media Technology Diagnosis of Our Time Digital Media Sociology of Media Sociology of Culture Media Studies |
ISBN | 3-8394-0403-7 |
Classificazione | AP 18300 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Foreword 9 Introduction 11 Is the cell phone undermining the social order? Understanding mobile technology from a sociological perspective 23 The social and economic implications of mobile telephony in Rwanda: An ownership/access typology 37 Postal presence: A case study of mobile customisation and gender in Melbourne 53 The age of the thumb: A cultural reading of mobile technologies from Asia 67 Communication problems 89 From teenage life to Victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life 101 Emotional attachment and mobile phones 117 The mobile phone and the dynamic between private and public communication: Results of an international exploratory study 123 The role of interspace in sustaining identity 137 The mobile phone as technological artefact 149 The mobile telephone as a return to unalienated communication 161 Mobile communication and the transformation of daily life: The next phase of research on mobiles 171 Facing the future, changing customer needs 185 Loading mobile phones in a multi-option society 189 Mobile mania, mobile manners 199 Your life in snapshots: Mobile weblogs (moblogs) 211 Designing the future: Fables from the mobile telecoms industry 225 The future of mobile in the 3G era 235 Mythology and mobile data 251 People, mobiles and society. Concluding insights from an international expert survey 261 Notes on Contributors 289 Backmatter 294 |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996308807503316 |
Glotz Peter | ||
Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Thumb culture : the meaning of mobile phones for society / / edited by Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke |
Autore | Glotz Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296) |
Disciplina | 621.38456 |
Collana | Kultur- und Medientheorie |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - Social aspects
Cell phones - Social aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
Mobile Phone
Mobile Media Communication Culture Society Media Technology Diagnosis of Our Time Digital Media Sociology of Media Sociology of Culture Media Studies |
ISBN | 3-8394-0403-7 |
Classificazione | AP 18300 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Foreword 9 Introduction 11 Is the cell phone undermining the social order? Understanding mobile technology from a sociological perspective 23 The social and economic implications of mobile telephony in Rwanda: An ownership/access typology 37 Postal presence: A case study of mobile customisation and gender in Melbourne 53 The age of the thumb: A cultural reading of mobile technologies from Asia 67 Communication problems 89 From teenage life to Victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life 101 Emotional attachment and mobile phones 117 The mobile phone and the dynamic between private and public communication: Results of an international exploratory study 123 The role of interspace in sustaining identity 137 The mobile phone as technological artefact 149 The mobile telephone as a return to unalienated communication 161 Mobile communication and the transformation of daily life: The next phase of research on mobiles 171 Facing the future, changing customer needs 185 Loading mobile phones in a multi-option society 189 Mobile mania, mobile manners 199 Your life in snapshots: Mobile weblogs (moblogs) 211 Designing the future: Fables from the mobile telecoms industry 225 The future of mobile in the 3G era 235 Mythology and mobile data 251 People, mobiles and society. Concluding insights from an international expert survey 261 Notes on Contributors 289 Backmatter 294 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910372806203321 |
Glotz Peter | ||
Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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