1st Edition
The Post-Mobile Society From the Smart/Mobile to Second Offline
Introduction 1. What is second offline? Hidenori Tomita Part I: From Kafka’s letter to mobile media 2. Pre-history of mobile practices: Genealogy of telepresence Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim 3. Development of mobile handsets and services on the supplier’s side Tomoyuki Okada Part II: Social life and mobile media 4. Mediated workplaces and work styles as second offline Keita Matsushita 5. Second offline perspective on the medical field Yuichi Kogure 6. Mobile media and school education Eriko Uematsu 7. Poly-reality: Sociological imagination evoked by smartphones Kunikazu Amagasa Part III: Cultural life and mobile media 8. Recreation and mobile content: ‘The future of mobile content: A new "me" in rich context’ Kota Ito 9. Romantic relationships and media usage among university students Ichiyo Habuchi 10. The ‘Triple Junction Model’ of mobile media: Two dogmas of the ‘myth of communication’ Kenichi Fujimoto Part IV: Social media and mobile society 11. Good grief: The role of social mobile media in the 3.11 earthquake disaster in Japan Larissa Hjorth, Kyoung-hwa Yonnie Kim 12. Mobile media and social movements: Structural change and spatial transformation of protest demonstrations Masaaki Ito 13. News exposure via social media and the filter bubble: Do shares and retweets foster social fragmentation? Morihiro Ogasahara 14. Conclusion
Biography
Hidenori Tomita is Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University, Japan.
