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	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