Mobile Communication and Greater China.

This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chu, Rodney Wai-chi Wai-chi
Other Authors: Fortunati, Leopoldina, Law, Pui-Lam, Yang, Shanhua
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge research on social work, social policy and social development in greater China.
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects > China.
Mobile communication systems > Social aspects > China.
Telecommunication > Social aspects > China.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social > Chine.
Radiocommunications mobiles > Aspect social > Chine.
Télécommunications > Aspect social > Chine.
Information technology > Social aspects
Telecommunication > Social aspects
China
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Mobile Communication and Greater China; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; 1. The great mobile revolution and the Chinese encounter: an introduction; Part I. Overview: from global to China; 2. From West to East and beyond: main tenets in the studies of the mobile phone; 3. Riding the double juggernaut: depicting the Chinese mobile communication context; Part II. Theory, history and comparison; 4. Mobile communication and the fourth communicative revolution; 5. The history of the mobile phone in China.
  • 6. Comparative development of the mobile Internet in China and Japan7. Mobile communication and individualization in Europe and in China; Part III. Techno-social interplay: cultural and identity tension; 8. Mobile networks and civil society: philosophical reflections on organizing social participation in the context of Chinese society; 9. Social networks and individualism: some issues on the role of the mobile phone in urban China; 10. The identity and sociability of the mobile phone in China; Part IV. Exploring the Chineseness of mobile phone use.
  • 11. College students' self-positioning and mobile phone consumption12. Romance and sexual ideologies in SMS manuals circulating among migrant workers in Southern China; 13. Mobile phone usage in Chinese society; 14. Privatizing public spaces and personalizing private spaces: the challenge of mobile communication in Beijing; Index.

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