Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart (Paperback)

1. Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart 2. Mobile Symbiosis: A Precursor to Public Risk-Taking Behavior? 3. Mobile Specters of Intimacy: A Case Study of Women and Mobile Intimacy 4. (Im)mobile Mobility: Marginal Youth and Mobile Phones in Beijing 5. Mobiles Are Not That Personal: The Unexpected Consequences of the Accountability, Accessibility, and Transparency Afforded by Mobile Telephony 6. Mobile Communication in Intimate Relationships: Relationship Development and the Multiple Dialectics of Couples’ Media Usage and Communication 7. Bonds and Bridges: Mobile Phone Use and Social Capital Debates 8. Extended Sociability and Relational Capital Management: Interweaving ICTs and Social Relations 9. Network and Mobile Sociality in Personal Communities: Exploring Personal Networks of ICT Users 10. There’s an Off-line Community on the Line! 11. Mobile Social Networking: Learning from Tourists’ Use of CB Radio in the Australian Outback 12. Generation Disconnections: Youth Culture and Mobile Communication 13. Interpersonal Communication beyond Geographical Constraints: A Case of College Students Who Maintain Geographically Dispersed Relationships Their Impact on Social Cohesion 15. Conclusion: Connecting and Disconnecting through Mobile Communication