Hartmann, M. Rössler, P., & Höflich, J. R. (eds.) (2008), After the mobile phone?: Social changes and the development of mobile communication. Berlin, Germany: Frank & Timme.
Contents
Introduction
by Maren Hartmann
 
Mobile Imagination
“Do you want to have a Beer over the Phone?”:Capturing Metaphoric Evidence of Mobile Symbiosis and the Mobile Imaginary on Film
by Kathleen M. Cumiskey
Texting and Calling Public Spheres: Mobile Phones, Sound Art and Habermas
by Frauke Behrendt
 
Mobile 'Media'?
Mobile Messaging and the Crisis in Participation Television
by Gerard Goggin & Christina Spurgeon
The Fourth Screen and the Liquid Medium: Notes for a Characterization of the Media Cultures Implicit in Mobile Entertainment Contents
by Juan Miguel Aguado & Immaculada J. Martinez
Journalistic Content and the World Cup 2006: Multimedia Services on Mobile Devices
by Sonja Kretzschmar
Mobile Video - Between Personal, Community and Mass Media
by Virpi Oksman
 
(Mobile) Social Networking
Mobile Devices and Social Networking
by Lee Humphreys
Communicative Mobility after the Mobile Phone: The Appropriation of Media Technology in Diasporic Communities
by Andreas Hepp
Mobile Internet, Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Japan 153
by Kakuko Miyata & Ken'ichi Ikeda
 
Mobile Appropriation
The Mobile Phone: an Essential Item for the US Public
by Michael Traugott, Sung-Hee Joo, Rich Ling &Ying Qian
After the Digital Divide? An Appropriation Perspective on the Generational Mobile-Phone Divide
by Veronika Karnowski, Thilo v. Pape & Werner Wirth
Breaking the Silence? The Use of the Mobile Phone in a University Library
by Julian Gebhardt, Joachim R. Höflich & Patrick Rössler
 
About the Contributors
 

Contents

After the Mobile Phone? Social Changes and the Development of Mobile Communication is a book that looks beyond. It looks beyond in terms of the coming developments concerning mobile technologies, of changes in the mobile media markets, of new aspects of mobile media uses. Moreover, it expands existing theoretical frameworks, since it uses diverse approaches from social sciences, from media studies, from technology studies, etc. After the Mobile Phone? also goes beyond the usual work on mobile media as it looks at wider societal appropriation processes. It is an up-to-date survey of how mobile media are used, produced and imagined. The authors in this book represent a range of well-known scholars in the field. They come from diverse backgrounds and represent a number of different countries.
The Editors

Maren Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Communication Sociology at the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin.

Patrick Rössler is Professor of Communication Science/Empirical Media Research at the University of Erfurt.

Joachim R. Höflich is Professor of Communication Science/Media Integration at the University of Erfurt.

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