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Mobile Communication in Everyday Life - Ethnographic Views, Observations and Reflections
Contents
6
Introduction: The ethnographic view
12
Structure
16
Dedication
18
References
18
Places of Life – Places of Communication: Observations of Mobile Phone Usage in Public Places
20
Introduction: mobile communication and social arrangements
20
Mobile communication in the public sphere
24
Observations on the Piazza Matteotti
28
Behaviour on the piazza
32
Concluding remarks
47
References
49
Photos and Fieldwork: Capturing Norms for Mobile Phone Use in the US
56
Background
57
Photos as means of communication
57
Photos as data collection
60
Ur-form
63
Photography of mobile phone use
65
Strategies: decoys and distance
65
Mobile phone use photos as data
67
Presenting the ur-form of public mobile phone use
69
Contextual factors
70
Ethics
72
Conclusion
75
References
77
Everyday Contexts of Camera Phone Use: Steps Toward Techno-Social Ethnographic Frameworks
80
Introduction
80
Camera phone adoption and research
81
Research design
83
Techno-social situations of camphone use
88
Conclusion
100
Acknowledgements
101
References
102
Mobile Visuality and Everyday Life in Finland: An Ethnographic Approach to Social Uses of Mobile Image
104
Approaching the social uses of mobile images
105
Multi-method ethnography
106
Ethnographic field experiments
109
Camera phones and the cycle of ‘moral panics’
111
Mobile image and telepresence
116
Ethnography and some methodological challenges
118
References
119
Unfaithful: Reflections of Enchantment, Disenchantment … and the Mobile Phone
124
Unfaithful
128
Secrecy and subterfuge
131
Conclusion
141
References
142
“I have a free phone so I don’t bother to send SMS, I call” – The Gendered Use of SMS Among Adults in Intact and Divorced Families
146
Introduction
146
The use of SMS
147
Spoken and written language
147
Gender and electronically mediated language
148
SMS as a ‘women’s medium’
150
SMS and the life cycle
153
Social networking and the instrumental use of SMS
156
Contact with males
158
Male attitudes towards SMS
160
Authenticity via SMS
162
The ideology of voice interaction
163
The power dimensions of voice and SMS
164
Conclusion
165
References
168
Another Kind of ‘Mobility’: Mobiles in Terrorist Attacks
174
Some basic facts
175
Roles played by mobile phones
177
Mobile phone networks during March 2004
180
Explosion-oriented role
183
Rescue role
185
Reinforcing kinship and friendship ties
187
Mass medium role
189
Conclusion
199
References
202
Fashion and Technology in the Presentation of the Self
204
Rationale
205
Identity, presentation of the self and new technologies
205
Mobile communication, fashion and presentation of the self
208
Aim and method
209
Results
211
Conclusion
224
References
225
How To Be in Two Places at The Same Time?- Mobile Phone Use in Public Places
228
The ethnographic work
231
Co-presence in public places: doing being a stranger
234
Mobile phone use in public: any topic, anywhere, anyone
236
Presence modulation
237
Conclusion
246
References
248
Beyond Talk, Beyond Sound: Emotional Expression and the Future of Mobile Connectivity
256
Preamble
256
Background
256
A way forward
259
Conceptualising emotion for design
261
Technologies for particular expressions
262
Stretching channels
263
The building blocks of expression
265
Lessons
267
Conclusion
269
References
270
A Mobile Ethnographic View on (Mobile) Media Usage?
274
Ethnographic media research
275
Domestication approach
276
Once again: what are media ethnographies?
279
Mobile media ethnography?
280
Urban Mobilities/ Urban Journeys9
284
Urban Tapestries16
289
The (im)possibility of a mobile ethnography?
294
References:
296
Ethnography, Related Research Approaches and Digital Media
300
Doing research in the rapidly changing environment of digital media
300
Some basics about empirical research
304
Some basics on qualitative research approaches
309
Some basics about research in order to construct new theories
311
Some basics about ethnography
313
Conclusion
316
References
318
Authors
322
Amalia Cianchi
322
Bella Ellwood-Clayton
322
Leopoldina Fortunati
322
Richard Harper
322
Maren Hartmann
323
Steve Hodges
323
Joachim Höflich
323
Lee Humphreys
323
Mizuko Ito
324
Friedrich Krotz
324
Amparo Lasen
324
Rich Ling
325
Santiago Lorente
325
Daisuke Okabe
325
Virpi Oksman
325
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