Description
Book SynopsisIn the few short decades since their commercial deployment, 5 billion peopleabout three-quarters of all humanity, including childrenhave become mobile phone users. No technology has even approached the mobile phone''s wildfire success. Effects of this success are apparent everywhere, ranging from accident scenes and earthquake rescue efforts to demeanor in the classroom and at dinner tables. No one interested in the next generation of issues provoked by the mobile communication revolution will want to miss this important new collection of essays.
The mobile phone has given near-transcendent power to ordinary people. All aspects of social life have been touched by mobile technology. An ever-growing host of tracking, immersion, gaming, and commercial applications are becoming available. The community of mobile communication scholars has blossomed from a handful of pioneers a decade ago to a large and dynamic intellectual community that spans the globe. Area researchers have gain
Table of Contents
1: Editor’s Introduction; 2: Overview: Surveying the Terrain; 3: Mobile Communication and Socio-Technical Change; 4: Sustainable Early Warning Systems: HazInfo Sri Lanka; 5: Mobile Communication and the Environment; 6: Mobile Phones’ Role following China’s 2008 Earthquake; 7: Social Networks and Policy Knowledge during the 2008 US Presidential Election; 8: Mobile-mediated Publics in South Africa’s 2009 Elections; 9: EMF Social Policy and Youth Mobile Phone Practices in Canada; 10: Mobile Communication Policies in the Workplace: The Case of U.S. State Governments; 11: ICT Use and Female Migrant Workers in Singapore; 12: Can You Take It with You? Mobility, ICTs and Work-Life Balance; 13: M-enabled Learning: The Mobile Phone’s Contribution to Education; 14: Lifeworld Keys and Intractable Objects: Privacy, Politics, and Mobile Symbolic Meanings in Italy; 15: Mobile Political Campaigns: The Nexus of Mass Content and Private Consumption; 16: Disability, Mobiles, and Social Policy: New Modes of Communication and Governance; 17: Social Participation and Mobile Communication; 18: Technological Rabbits and Communication Turtles; 19: Conclusion
