1st Edition
The Reconstruction of Space and Time Mobile Communication Practices
Edited By Rich Ling
Copyright 2009
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with almost anyone, almost anywhere. This advancement has changed, and continues to change, human... Read more
Introduction The Reconstruction of Space and Time through Mobile Communication Practices; 1: Tailing Untethered Mobile Users: Studying Urban Mobilities and Communication Practices; 2: Migrant Workers and Mobile Phones: Technological, Temporal, and Spatial Simultaneity; 3: Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places; 4: New Reasons for Mobile Communication: Intensification of Time-Space Geography in the Mobile Era; 5: Nonverbal Cues in Mobile Phone Text Messages: The Effects of Chronemics and Proxemics; 6: Mobile Phones: Transforming the Everyday Social Communication Practice of Urban Youth; 7: Trust, Friendship, and Expertise: The Use of Email, Mobile Dialogues, and SMS to Develop and Sustain Social Relations in a Distributed Work Group; 8: Negotiations in Space: The Impact of Receiving Phone Calls on the Move; 9: Mobile Phone Work: Disengaging and Engaging Mobile Phone Activities with Concurrent Activities; 10: Beyond the Personal and Private: Modes of Mobile Phone Sharing in Urban India; Conclusion Mobile Communication in Space and Time Furthering the Theoretical Dialogue
Biography
Rich Ling
