Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness

Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.

Runner-Up, 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award

"I blog, text, IM, email, and I don't like to be without my cell phone or have to shut it off-even in a theater. Let's put it this way, my 'connections' are more important than whatever I'm doing that might force me to shut my cell phone off." - A Member of a Portable Community

In contemporary ...