Mobile Technologies

From Telecommunications to Media
Herausgeber: Goggin, Gerard; Hjorth, Larissa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, industry, and general readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415989862
• ISBN-10: 0415989868
• Artikelnr.: 25840667

Autorenporträt

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication and deputy director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales. His books include Mobile Phone Cultures (2008), Cell Phone Culture (2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), Digital Disability (2003). Larissa Hjorth is a lecturer and artist in the Games and Digital Art programs at RMIT University, Melbourne. Hjorth has published widely on mobile media in the Asia-Pacific region in journals such as Journal of Intercultural Studies, Continuum, ACCESS, Convergence, Fibreculture and Southern Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Reprising Mobile Theory Chapter 1: "The Question of Mobile Media"
Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth Chapter 2: "Intimate Connections: The
Impact of the Mobile Phone on Work Life Boundaries" Judy Wajcman, Michael
Bittman and Jude Brown Chapter 3: "Gender and the Mobile Phone" Leopoldina
Fortunati Part II: Youth, Families, and the Politics of Generations
Chapter 4: "Children's Broadening Use of Mobile Phones" Leslie Haddon and
Jane Vincent Chapter 5: "Mobile Communication and Teen Emancipation" Rich
Ling Chapter 6: "Mobile Media and the Transformation of Family" Misa
Matsuda Chapter 7: "Purikura as a Social Management Tool" Daisuke Okabe,
Mizuko Ito, Aico Shimizu and Jan Chipchase Part III: Mobiles in the Field
of Media Chapter 8: "Mobile Media on Low-Cost Handsets: The Resiliency of
Text Messaging among Small Enterprises in India (and Beyond)" Jonathan
Donner Chapter 9: "Innovations at the Edge: The Impact of Mobile
Technologies on the Character of the Internet" Harmeet Sawnhey Chapter 10:
"Media Contents in Mobiles: Comparing Video, Audio and Text" Virpi Oksman
Chapter 11: "New Economics for the New Media" Stuart Cunningham and Jason
Potts Chapter 12: "Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile
Media" Larissa Hjorth Part IV: Renewing Media Forms Chapter 13: "Back to
the Future: The Past and Present of Mobile TV" Gabriele Balbi and Benedetta
Prario Chapter 14: "Net_Dérive: Conceiving and Producing a Locative Media
Artwork" Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck Chapter 15: "Mobile News in
Chinese Newspaper Groups: A Case Study of Yunnan Daily Press Group" Liu
Cheng and Axel Bruns Chapter 16: "Re-inventing Newspapers in a Digital Era:
The Mobile E-Paper" Wendy Van den Broeck, Bram Lievens and Jo Pierson Part
V: Mobile Imaginings Chapter 17: "Face to Face: Avatars and Mobile
Identities" Kathy Cleland Chapter 18: "Re-imagining Urban Space: Mobility,
Connectivity, and a Sense of Place" Dong-Hoo Lee Chapter 19: "These Foolish
Things: On Intimacy and Insignificance in Mobile Media" Kate Crawford
Chapter 20: "Mobility, Memory and Identity" Nicola Green