Table of Contents

Introduction Gerard Goggin. Mobile Phone Cultures, Politics, and Theories. Imagining Mobiles Juan Miguel Aguado & Inmaculada J. Martínez. The Construction of the Mobile Experience: The Role of Advertising Campaigns in the Domestication of Mobile Phone Technologies Alberta Contarello, Leopoldina Fortunati and Mauro Sarrica. Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone: A Study of Social Change with the Diffusion of Mobile Phones, Using a Social Representations Framework Catherine Middleton. Illusions of Balance and Control in an Always-On Environment: A Case Study of BlackBerry Users. Scripting and Shaping Mobile Technology Leslie Regan Shade. Mobile Designs as Gendered Scripts Heidi Campbell. What Hath God Wrought: Mobile Faith and the Culturing of the Cell Phone Angel Lin & Avin Tong. Text-Messaging Cultures of College Girls in Hong Kong: Communicative Features, Linguistic Styles, and Social Relations Associated with SMS Practices Yun Xia. Chinese Use of SMS. Locations of Mobile Culture Gopalan Ravindran. Body, Self and Mobile Space: Negotiating Modernity and Tradition in India Larissa Hjorth. Snapshots of Almost Contact: Gendered Camera Phone Practices and a Case Study in Seoul, Korea Tanya Batson Savage. ‘Hol’ Awn Mek a Answer Mi Cellular’: The Cellular Phone, Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Urban Jamaica Cecilia Uy-Tioco. Mobile Phones and Text Messaging: Reinventing Migrant Mothering and Transnational Families. Mobile Bodies and Visions Lisa Gye. Picture This: Mobile Camera Phones and Family Photography Christina Spurgeon, Gerard Goggin and Michael Keane. Mobiles into Media: Premium Rate SMS and the Adaptation of Television to Interactive Communication Cultures Virginia Nightingale. Moblogging: Photographic Practices in Camera Phone Weblogs Ingrid Richardson. Pocket Technospaces: The Bodily Incorporation of Mobile New Media. Studying Mobile Phone Cultures: Future Directions Mark McLelland. Socio-Cultural Aspects of Mobile Communication Technologies in ‘Asia’ Gerard Goggin. Trajectories of Mobile Network Cultures