Displacing place

Kleinman, S. (ed.) (2007). Displacing place: Mobile communication in the twenty-first century. Peter Lang Publishing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION by Sharon Kleinman

PART ONE: Place and 'Polis
CHAPTER 1	Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century, or "Everybody, Everywhere, at Anytime" by Gary Gumpert & Susan J. Drucker
CHAPTER 2	Municipal WiFi Comes to Town by Harvey Jassem
CHAPTER 3	Mobility in Mediapolis: Will Cities be Displaced, Replaced, or Disappear? by Gene Burd
CHAPTER 4	Living and Loving in the Metro/Electro Polis: Understanding the Neurobiology of Attachments in a Society with Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Communication Technologies-- by Yvonne Houy
CHAPTER 5	Displacing Place with Obsolete Information and Communication Technologies by Julie Newman

PART TWO: Mobile Innovations
CHAPTER 6	Cyber-crime on the Move- by Matthew Williams
CHAPTER 7	Breaking Free: The Shaping and Resisting of Mobility in Personal Information and Communication Technologies by Julian Kilker
CHAPTER 8	Mobile Culture: Podcasting as Public Media by Jarice Hanson & Bryan Baldwin
CHAPTER 9	Reach out and Download Something: An Analysis of Cell Phone and Cell Phone Plan Advertisements by Richard Olsen

PART THREE: Mobile Technologies at Work
CHAPTER 10	Networks Unleashed: Mobile Communication and the Evolution of Networked Organizations-- by Calvert Jones & Patricia Wallace
CHAPTER 11	Medical Communication: Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room and Critical Care Unit by Keith J. Ruskin
CHAPTER 12	Therapy at a Distance: Information and Communication Technologies and Mental Health by Penny A. Leisring
CHAPTER 13	But You Don't Play with the Mobile Information and Communication Technologies You Already Have: An Instructional Technologist's View of Teaching with Technology in Higher Education by Gary Pandolfi
CHAPTER 14	Pumping Up the Pace: The Wireless Newsroom by Andrew Smith

CONCLUSION	Anytime, Any Place: Mobile Information and Communication Technologies in the Culture of Efficiency by Sharon Kleinman

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

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Book Description Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century addresses the innovative, unanticipated, and far-reaching ways that mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering how we work, play, and relate to one another. This extraordinary collection of new essays by leading scholars and professionals from a range of disciplines reveals the effects, implications, and future of mobile communication in a reader-friendly balance of theoretical and empirical chapters. Displacing Place is a vital book for students, scholars, professionals, and all readers interested in social and technological trends in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Bryan Baldwin Gene Burd Susan J. Drucker Gary Gumpert Jarice Hanson Yvonne Houy Harvey Jassem Calvert Jones Julian Kilker Penny A. Leisring Julie Newman Richard Olsen Gary Pandolfi Keith J. Ruskin Andrew Smith Patricia Wallace Matthew Williams About the Author Sharon Kleinman is Professor of Communications at Quinnipiac University. Her research focuses on the history and social implications of communication technologies and on issues concerning online and place-based communities. She holds a B.A. in English and American literature from Brandeis University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University.