Mobile Communications (eBook)

Research Questions for the Evolving Communications Landscape.- Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the Theory—Technology Relation.- Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of Wireline—Wireless Relationship.- Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning.- Behavioral Changes at the Mobile Workplace: A Symbolic Interactionistic Approach.- Being Mobile with the Mobile: Cellular Telephony and Renegotiations of Public Transport as Public Sphere.- Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-placement of Social Contact.- Phone Talk.- Mobile Camera Phones: A New Form of “Being Together” in Daily Interpersonal Communication.- Tell Me About Your Mobile and I’ll Tell You Who You Are: Israelis Talk About Themselves.- Mobile Telephone and the Presentation of Self.- “Surprisingly, Nobody Tried to Caution Her”: Perceptions of Intentionality and the Role of Social Responsibility in the Public Use of Mobile Phones.- Changing Learning and Teaching Cultures?.- Mobile Phone Addiction.- Does Personality Affect Peoples’ Attitude Towards Mobile Phone Use in Public Places?.- Tethered or Mobile? Use of Away Messages in Instant Messaging by American College Students.- Language Use in Swedish Mobile Text Messaging.- The Sociolinguistics of SMS: An Analysis of SMS Use by a Random Sample of Norwegians.- The Construction of Symbolic Values of the Mobile Phone in the Hong Kong Chinese Print Media.- Instrumentality Challenged: The Adoption of a Mobile Parking Service.- Relationship Deepening Through Mobile and Interactive Services.- The Integration of Mobile Alerts into Everyday Life.- The Wired — and Wireless — Japanese: Webphones, PCs and Social Networks.