Engagement and Exposure

Engagement and Exposure: Mobile Communication and the Ethics of Social Networking

Herausgegeben von Kristóf Nyíri

Reihe Passagen Philosophie
Social networking sites have in the past few years become extremely popular, and have turned the web into a markedly social medium. However, online social networking has led to concerns about privacy, as well as about possible counterproductive effects on making new realworld acquaintances. These effects are, in the short run, aggravated by permanent mobile connectivity. In the long run, however, mobile social networking might actually enhance real-world connections, with persons in your physical vicinity able to introduce themselves on the screen of your handheld. Privacy, anonymity, virtuality, friendship– the topic of mobile social networking clearly invites philosophical, and, in particular, ethical discussions. The volume contains papers by, among others, Charles Ess, Leopoldina Fortunati, Richard Harper, James E. Katz, Rich Ling, and Kurt Röttgers.

Citation:

Nyíri, K. (Ed.) (2009). Engagement and exposure: Mobile communication and the ethics of social networking. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.

Mobile Communications

Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media

Nicola Green and Leslie Haddon

Product Description
The mobile phone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life.

This communications medium has had an immense social and cultural impact and continues to evolve. Talking, texting, photographing, videoing, connecting to a network of other media - the cellphone now seems essential. But, beyond the ways in which it has actively restructured our daily lives, the mobile has changed our sense of ourselves and the way we see the world. The relationship between public and private space, how we view time and space, how we rely on and negotiate social networks - all are increasingly centred on this small piece of technology.

Mobile Communications presents a succinct, challenging, and accessible overview of the transformations and challenges presented by this most personal, yet most overlooked technology.

About the authors
Nicola Green is Senior Lecturer in New Media and New Technologies in the Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey.
Leslie Haddon is Researcher and Associate Lecturer in the Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Citation:

Green, N., & Haddon, L. (2009). Mobile communications: An introduction to new media. New York, NY: Berg.

Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication

Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication

Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner

Product Description
With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth. In 2007, the world had over 3 billion mobile subscriptions. Prosperous nations boast of having more subscriptions than people. In the developing world, hundreds of millions of people who could never afford a landline telephone now have a mobile number of their own. With a mobile in our hand many of us feel safer, more productive, and more connected to loved ones, but perhaps also more distracted and less involved with things happening immediately around us.

Written by two leading researchers in the field, this volume presents an overview of the mobile telephone as a social and cultural phenomenon. Research is summarized and made accessible though detailed descriptions of ten mobile users from around the world. These illustrate popular debates, as well as deeper social forces at work. The book concludes by considering three themes: the tighter interlacing of daily activities; a revolution of control in the social sphere, and the arrival of a world where the majority of its inhabitants are reachable, anytime, anywhere.

About the Author
Rich Ling is Senior Researcher at the Telenor Research Institute in Norway.
Jonathan Donner is Researcher for Microsoft Research India.

Citation:

Ling, R., & Donner, J. (2009). Mobile phones and mobile communication. Polity Press.