Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies (Hardcover)

Manuel Castells, James E. Katz

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2008-05-01
  • 定價: $1,350
  • 售價: 6.0$810
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 488
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262113120
  • ISBN-13: 9780262113120
  • 相關分類: 行動通訊 Mobile-communication
  • 立即出貨(限量) (庫存=2)

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商品描述

Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly adopted new technology in the world: more than one of every three people worldwide possesses a mobile phone. This volume offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Leading scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange, from the "aspirational consumption" of middle class families in India to the belief in parts of Africa and Asia that mobile phones can communicate with the dead.

The contributors explore the ways mobile communication profoundly affects the tempo, structure, and process of daily life around the world. They discuss the impact of mobile communication on social networks, other communication strategies, traditional forms of social organization, and political activities. They consider how quickly miraculous technologies come to seem ordinary and even necessary—and how ordinary technology comes to seem mysterious and even miraculous. The chapters cut across social issues and geographical regions; they highlight use by the elite and the masses, utilitarian and expressive functions, and political and operational consequences. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate how mobile communication has affected the quality of life in both exotic and humdrum settings, and how it increasingly occupies center stage in people’s lives around the world.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

移動通訊已成為主流,甚至無所不在。可以說,它是全球最成功且最迅速被接受的新技術:全球超過三分之一的人口擁有手機。本書全面探討了移動通訊對全球文化、家庭和人際關係所帶來的影響。領先的學者們分析了移動通訊對生活各個方面的影響,從識字能力與手機文本特徵之間的關係,到鈴聲作為社交交流形式的使用,從印度中產家庭的「渴望消費」,到非洲和亞洲某些地區認為手機可以與死者溝通的信仰。

作者們探討了移動通訊如何深刻影響全球日常生活的節奏、結構和過程。他們討論了移動通訊對社交網絡、其他溝通策略、傳統社會組織形式和政治活動的影響。他們考慮了奇蹟般的技術如何迅速變得普通甚至必要,以及普通技術如何變得神秘甚至奇蹟。這些章節涵蓋了社會問題和地理區域,突出了精英和大眾的使用、功利和表達功能,以及政治和運營後果。綜合起來,這些章節展示了移動通訊如何影響了異國情調和平凡場景中的生活質量,以及它如何在全球人們的生活中越來越佔據中心舞台。