Mobile Phone Cultures

Mobile cell phones are used all around the world, and now play an important role in the everyday lives of billions of people. What do we really know about mobile phone culture, however? This fascinating, provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world ' with an international cast of contributors and case studies from many countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Mobile Phone Culture looks at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations, traces the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender, sexuality, religion, communication style, and delves into the locations of mobile culture in modernity, urban settings, and even transnational families. The book also offers a guide to convergent mobile phone culture, with fresh, innovative accounts of text messaging, Blackberry, camera phones, moblogging, and mobile adventures in television. Indispensable for communication, cultural, media, mobile and Internet studies scholars and students alike, Mobile Phone Culture opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology. This book was previously published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural StudiesMobile Phone Cultures, was published 2008 under ISBN 9780415425308 and ISBN 0415425301.