Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Ana Serrano Tellería is Assistant Professor at University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain; a Postdoctoral Researcher at LabCom.IFP, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Media Consultant,  R+D+i Project Manager; and a journalist and performer.

Introduction

Ana Serrano Tellería



Part I. Reframing Theories and Methods:



1. The Phases of Mobile Communication Research

Rich Ling



2. Public, no Private in Mobile Communications (towards an Ethics of



Transparency)

Derrick de Kerckhove



Part II. Revisiting Traditional Issues



3. Evolving Patterns of Mobile Call Openings and Closings



Leopoldina Fortunati and Naomi Baron



4. Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life: Skype as a Precursor of Perpetual Visual Contact

James E. Katz and Elisabeth Thomas Crocker



5. Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICTs: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal Spaces

Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano and Ruepert Jiel Cao



Part III. Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space



6. The "Smart" Women: How South Asian Women Negotiate their Social



and Cultural Space through Mobile Technology

Ishita Shruti



7. Inscribing Intimacy: Conceptual Frames for Understanding Mobile Media Affect Amparo Lasén and Larissa Hjorth



8. The Afterlife of Intimacy: Selfies, Loss and Intimate Publics

Larissa Hjorth



Part IV: The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright



9. A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users: Self-Disclosure and Network Homogeneity

Kenichi Ishii



10. Doing things with Content: The Impact of Mobile Application Interface in the Uses and Characterization of Media. Juan Miguel Aguado

Inmaculada J. Martínez and Laura Cañete



11. Copyright and User-Generated Content for Mobile Devices: News,