The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (Paperback)

Contents: Anandam Kavoori/Noah Arceneaux: Introduction ? Paul Levinson: The Little Big Blender: How the Cellphone Integrates the Digital and the Physical, Everywhere ? Adriana de Souza e Silva: Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces ? Janey Gordon: The Cell Phone: An Artifact of Popular Culture and a Tool of the Public Sphere ? Rich Ling: Life in the Nomos: Stress, Emotional Maintenance, and Coordination via the Mobile Telephone in Intact Families ? Wendy Robinson/David Robison: Tsunami Mobilizations: Considering the Role of Mobile and Digital Communication Devices, Citizen Journalism, and the Mass Media ? Collette Snowden: Cstng A pwr4l spLL: D evOLshn f SMS (Casting a Powerful Spell: The Evolution of SMS) ? Allison Whitney: Can You Fear Me Now?: Cell Phones and the American Horror Film ? Heidi Campbell: Texting the Faith: Religious Users and Cell Phone Culture ? Gerard Goggin/Christopher Newell: Disabling Cell Phones ? Davin Heckman: ≪Do You Know the Importance of a Skypager?≫: Telecommunications, African Americans, and Popular Culture ? Bahiyyih Maroon: Mobile Sociality in Urban Morocco ? Paul Leonardi/Marianne E. Leonardi/Elizabeth Hudson: Culture, Organization, and Contradiction in the Social Construction of Technology: Adoption and Use of the Cell Phone across Three Cultures ? Anandam Kavoori/Kalyani Chadha: The Cell Phone as a Cultural Technology: Lessons from the Indian Case.