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The mobile connection : the cell phone's impact on society /
"Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this book examines the once-unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and proc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
Morgan Kaufmann,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- The history of mobile telephony
- The growth of the mobile market
- Outline of the book
- 2. Making sense of mobile telephone adoption
- The interaction between technology and society
- Technical/social determinism and affordances
- The domestication of Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
- Methods and data sources
- 3. Safety and security
- Introduction
- The mobile telephone as a contribution to security
- Use in situations where there is a chronic or an acute need for contact
- Abstraction of security vis-à-vis mobile telephony
- The mobile telephone in extraordinary situations
- Diminution of safety
- Driving and mobile telephone use
- Personal privacy
- Conclusion
- 4. The coordination of everyday life
- Introduction
- Social coordination
- Mechanical timekeeping and social coordination
- The development of mechanical timekeeping
- The standardization of time
- The etiquette of time and timekeeping
- Mobile communication and microcoordination
- Midcourse adjustment
- Iterative coordination
- Softening of schedules
- Time-based vs. mobile-based coordination
- Advantages of mobile based coordination
- Limitations
- Competition or supplement
- Conclusion
- 5. The mobile telephone and teens
- Introduction
- Child/adolescent development and the adoption of telephony
- Adolescence and emancipation in contemporary society
- Elements in the adoption of mobile telephony by teens
- Functional uses of the mobile telephone among adolescents
- Symbolic meaning of the mobile telephone
- Social networking via the mobile telephone
- The monetary dimensions to teens' adoption of mobile telephony
- Conclusion : mobile telephony and the dance of emancipation
- 6. The intrusive nature of mobile telephony
- Introduction
- Mobile telephony in settings with heavy normative expectations
- Mobile telephony in interpersonal situations
- Initiation of the call and the production of social partitions
- Management of the local situation during the call
- Reemergence into the local setting
- Forced eavesdropping and being embarrassed for others
- Conclusion
- 7. Texting and the growth of asynchronous discourse
- Introduction
- The growth of texting
- Texting and the individual
- Texting and the group
- What is being said, who is saying it, and how do they say it
- Content of the messages
- Mechanics of SMS writing
- Written vs. spoken language
- Gendering of text messages
- The future of texting
- 8. Conclusion : the consequences of Osborne's prognosis
- Introduction
- Interaction between innovation and social institutions
- History of technical innovation and social adoption
- Sociology and the role of technical innovation
- Social capital vs. individualism
- Social capital
- The institutionalization of individualization
- The role of ICTs in the fostering of social capital/individualism
- The Internet
- The mobile telephone
- Ad hoc networks
- Virtual walled communities
- Appendix. Data sources used in the analysis of mobile telephony.