The Mobile Connection

The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-55860-936-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Interactive Technologies

Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for "real time" coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens "text" to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places.

Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years.

*Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
*A particularly "good read", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones.
*Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.

Zielgruppe

mobile phone and other information appliance interaction designers, product designers, social psychologists and others involved with HCI and the design field

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ling, Rich

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Telekommunikationswirtschaft, Post
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Mobilfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Making Sense of Mobile Telephone Adoption Chapter 3: Safety and Security
Chapter 4: The Coordination of Everyday Life
Chapter 5: The Mobile Telephone and Teens
Chapter 6: The Intrusive Nature of Mobile Telephony
Chapter 7: Texting and the Growth of Asynchronous Discourse
Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Significance of Osborne's Prognosis
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ling, Rich
<b>Rich Ling</b> is a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, where he researches issues associated with new information technology and society. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Udine, Italy. Ling has published numerous articles and has organized and participated in numerous international conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in his native U.S.