The Mobile Media Reader

Noah Arceneaux is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. His research explores the social construction of new media technologies, ranging from wireless telegraphy to emerging forms of mobile media. His work has been published in a number of journals, and he is the co-editor of The Cell Phone Reader (Lang, 2006). Anandam Kavoori is Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of eight books including Reading YouTube (Lang, 2011), Digital Media Criticism (Lang, 2010), and co-editor of The Cell Phone Reader (Lang, 2006).

Contents: Noah Arceneaux/Anandam Kavoori: Introduction: Mapping Mobile Media – Jason Farman: Historicizing Mobile Media: Locating the Transformations of Embodied Space – Scott W. Ruston: Calling Ahead: Cinematic Imaginations of Mobile Media’s Critical Affordances – Matthew A. Killmeier: Analog Analogue: U.S. Automotive Radio as Mobile Medium – Noah Arceneaux: CB Radio: Mobile Social Networking in the 1970s – Thomas W. Hazlett: A Brief History of U.S. Mobile Spectrum – Aymar Jean Christian: Not TV, Not the Web: Mobile Video Between Openness and Control – Gerard Goggin/Caroline Hamilton: Reading After the Phone: E-readers and Mobile Media – Collette Snowden: As It Happens: Mobile Communications Technology, Journalists and Breaking News – Samuel Tobin: Time and Space in Play: Saving and Pausing with the Nintendo DS – Ben Aslinger: You Can Ring My Bell and Tap My Phone: Mobile Music, the Ringtone Economy, and the Rise of Apps – Burçe Çelik: Appropriation of Cell Phones by Kurds: The Social Practice of Struggle for Political Identities in Turkey – Imar de Vries: Through the Looking Cell Phone Screen: Dreams of Omniscience in an Age of Mobile Augmented Reality.