The cell phone reader
Subtitle: essays in social transformation
By: edited by Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux.
Contributors: Kavoori, Anandam P.; Arceneaux, Noah, 1968-
Series: Digital formations,
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Cellular telephones -- Social aspects; Wireless communication systems -- Social aspects; Technology -- Social aspects
Description: The Cell Phone Reader offers a set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the profound social, cultural and international impact of this small device.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux; title: Theorizing cell phones; title: The little big blender: how the cellphone integrates the digital and the physical everywhere / Paul Levinson; title: Interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva; title: The mobile phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere / Janey Gordon; title: Life in the nomos: stress, emotional maintenance and coordination via the mobile; title: Telephone in intact families / Rich Ling; title: Robinson piece - title TBD / Wendy Robinson and David Robison; title: Discussion questions Part one; title: Identity politics and/of/ in the cell phone cstng a pwr4l spll: d evolshn f sms / Collette Snowden; title: Can you fear me now?: cell phones and the American horror film / Allison Whitney; title: Texting the faith: religious users and cell phone culture / Heidi Campbell; title: Disabling cell phones / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell; title: Do you know the importance of a skypager?: telecommunications, African-Americans and popular culture / Davin Heckman; title: Discussion questions Part two; title: International perspectives; title: Mobile sociality in urban Morocco / Bah?yyih Maroon; title: Culture, organization, and contradiction in the social construction of technology:; title: Adoption and use of the cell phone across three cultures / Paul Leonardi, Marianne E. Leonardi, and Elizabeth Hudson; title: The cell phone as a cultural technology: lessons from the Indian case / Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha; title: Discussion questions Part three.