vi, 246 pages : 23 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux -- pt. 1. Theorizing cell phones -- The little big blender: how the cellphone integrates the digital and the physical, everywhere / Paul Levinson -- Interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- The cell phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere / Janey Gordon -- Life in the nomos: stress, emotional maintenance, and coordination via the mobile telephone in intact families / Rich Ling -- Tsunami mobilizations : considering the role of mobile and digital communications devices, citizen journalism, and the mass media / Wendy Robinson and David Robison -- pt. 2. Identity politics and/of/in the cell phone -- Cstng A pwr4l spLL: D evOLshn f SMS (Casting a powerful spell: the evolution of SMS) / Collette Snowden -- Can you fear me now?: cell phones and the American horror film / Allison Whitney -- Texting the faith: religious users and cell phone culture / Heidi Campbell -- Disabling cell phones / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell -- "Do you know the importance of a skypager?": telecommunications, African Americans, and popular culture / Davin Heckman -- pt. 3. International perspectives -- Mobile sociality in urban Morocco / Bahíyyih Maroon -- Culture, organization, and contradiction in the social construction of technology: adoption and use of the cell phone across three cultures / Paul Leonardi, Marianne E. Leonardi, and Elizabeth Hudson -- The cell phone as a cultural technology: lessons from the Indian case / Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha

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

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews