Mobile Phone Cultures

<p>What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. </p><p>An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations - tracing the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender, sexuality, religion, communication style - and explore the locations of mobile phone culture in modernity, urban settings and even transnational families. </p><p>This book also provides a guide to convergent mobile phone culture, with fresh, innovative accounts of text messaging, Blackberry, camera phones, moblogging and mobile adventures in television. <em>Mobile Phone Culture</em> opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology.</p><p>Previously published as a special issue of <em>Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.</em></p> <p>Introduction <em>Gerard Goggin. </em>Mobile Phone Cultures, Politics, and Theories. Imagining Mobiles <em>Juan Miguel Aguado & Inmaculada J. Martínez. </em>The Construction of the Mobile Experience: The Role of Advertising Campaigns in the Domestication of Mobile Phone Technologies <em>Alberta Contarello, Leopoldina Fortunati and Mauro Sarrica. </em>Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone: A Study of Social Change with the Diffusion of Mobile Phones, Using a Social Representations Framework <em>Catherine Middleton. </em>Illusions of Balance and Control in an Always-On Environment: A Case Study of BlackBerry Users. Scripting and Shaping Mobile Technology <em>Leslie Regan Shade. </em>Mobile Designs as Gendered Scripts <em>Heidi Campbell. </em>What Hath God Wrought: Mobile Faith and the Culturing of the Cell Phone <em>Angel Lin & Avin Tong. </em>Text-Messaging Cultures of College Girls in Hong Kong: Communicative Features, Linguistic Styles, and Social Relations Associated with SMS Practices <em>Yun Xia. </em>Chinese Use of SMS. Locations of Mobile Culture <em>Gopalan Ravindran. </em>Body, Self and Mobile Space: Negotiating Modernity and Tradition in India <em>Larissa Hjorth. </em>Snapshots of Almost Contact: Gendered Camera Phone Practices and a Case Study in Seoul, Korea <em>Tanya Batson Savage. </em>‘Hol’ Awn Mek a Answer Mi Cellular’: The Cellular Phone, Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Urban Jamaica <em>Cecilia Uy-Tioco. </em>Mobile Phones and Text Messaging: Reinventing Migrant Mothering and Transnational Families. Mobile Bodies and Visions <em>Lisa Gye.</em> Picture This: Mobile Camera Phones and Family Photography <em>Christina</em> <em>Spurgeon, Gerard Goggin and Michael Keane. </em>Mobiles into Media: Premium Rate SMS and the Adaptation of Television to Interactive Communication Cultures <em>Virginia Nightingale. </em>Moblogging: Photographic Practices in Camera Phone Weblogs <em>Ingrid Richardson. </em>Pocket Technospaces: The Bodily Incorporation of Mobile New Media. Studying Mobile Phone Cultures: Future Directions <em>Mark McLelland. </em>Socio-Cultural Aspects of Mobile Communication Technologies in ‘Asia’ <em>Gerard Goggin. </em>Trajectories of Mobile Network Cultures</p>