Nyíri, K. (ed.) (2007). Mobile studies. Paradigms and perspectives. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
Preface
by Kristóf Nyíri
 
Representational Systems, Selection, and the Diffusion of Ideas
by Csaba Pléh
The Mobile Image: Experience on the Move
by Zsuzsanna Kondor
Mobile Learning and Lifelong Knowledge Acquisition
by András Benedek
Mobile Work
by István Maradi
Modern Technology and the Secular Increase in IQ
by Kristóf Kovács
Back to Natural
by Klára Sándor
Perception Mobilized
by Daniel L. Golden
Space as a Scene of Communication
by Ferenc András
Time and the Mobile Order
by Kristóf Nyíri
Mobile Communication, Self-Organisation, and Urban Renewal
by Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky
Maps as Tools of Thinking
by Viktor Bed
Network Society 2.0, or virtuelle Gemeinschaft
by Gerg Prazsák
The Internet and the Mobile Phone as Competing Metaphors
by Endre Dányi
The Reporting Mobile. A New Platform for Citizen Media
by Henrik Schneider
Testimony, Pictures, and the Credibility of Science in the Mobil Age
by Gábor Palló
 
Notes on Contributors
Index



A new research topic has emerged in the social sciences and the humanities: mobile telephony. The volume summarizes the results of the new discipline of Mobile Studies, and opens up new perspectives on the mobile phone in the age of telecommunications convergence.

Around the year 2000, a new research topic emerged in the social sciences and the humanities: mobile telephony. Drawing on earlier scholarship on the classic phone, the internet, and the information society, and applying the conceptual tools of communication theory, sociology, psychology, political science, etc., mobile telephone research began as, and continues to be, an interdisciplinary enterprise. Nonetheless, over the years an impressive array of paradigmatic research results has crystallized into what can be termed as the new discipline of Mobile Studies. Summarizing these results, the volume also opens up new perspectives on mobile telephony in the age of telecommunications convergence.


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