Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communications


The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC) is intended to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. It is intended to serve as a resource and to support a network of scholarly research as to the social consequences of mobile communication.




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2017
Alper, M. (2017). Giving voice: Mobile communication, disability, and inequality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jin, D. Y. (Ed.) (2017). Mobile gaming in Asia. Springer.
Jin, D. Y. (2017). Smartland Korea: Mobile communication, culture and society. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

2016
Lim, S. S. (Ed.). (2016). Mobile communication and the family:Asian experiences in technology domestication. Springer.Wei, R. (Ed.) (2016). Mobile media, political participation, and civic activism in Asia: Private chat to public communication. Springer.

2015
Frith, J. (2015). Smartphones as locative media. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Evans, L. (2015). Locative social media: Place in the digital Age. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Frith, J. (2015). Smartphone as locative media. Malden, MA: Polity.
Herman, A., Hadlaw, J., & Swiss, T. (Eds.) (2015). Theories of the mobile Internet: Materialities and imaginaries. New York, NY: Routledge.
Langlois, G., Redden, J. & Elmer, G. (Eds.) (2015). Compromised data: From social media to big data. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.
Shirky, C. (2015). Little Rice: Smartphones, xiaomi, and the Chinese dream. Columbia Global Reports.

2014
boyd, D. (2014). It's complicated: The social lives of networked teens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
de Souza e Silva, A. & Sheller, M. (Eds.). (2014). Mobility and locative media: Mobile communication in hybrid spaces. New York, NY: Routledge.
Farman, J. (Eds.) (2014). The mobile story: Narrative practices with locative technologies. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Goggin , G., & Hjorth, L. (Eds.) (2014). The Routledge companion to mobile media. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Gopinath, S. & Stanyek, J. (Eds.) (2014). The Oxford handbook of mobile music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hermida, A. (2014). Tell everyone: Why we share and why it matters. Doubleday Canada.
Hjorth, L., & Richardson, I. (2014). Gaming in social, locative and mobile media. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.  
Larsen, J. & Sandbye, M. (2014). Digital snaps: The new face of photography. New York, NY: I. B. Tauris.
Langlois, G. (2014). Meaning in the age of social media. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Miller, P. D. & Matviyenko, S. (Eds.) (2014). The imaginary app. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Townsend, A. M. (2014). Smart cities: Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Wilken, R. & Goggin, G. (Eds.) (2014). Locative media. New York, NY: Routledge,

2013
Bruck, P. A., & Rao, M. (Eds.) (2013). Global mobile: Applications and innovations for the worldwide mobile ecosystem. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. 
Clark, L. S. (2013). The parent app: Understanding families in the digital age. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
Cumiskey, K. M. & Hjorth, L. (2013). Mobile media practices, presence and politics: The challenge of being seamlessly mobile. New York, NY: Routledge.
Drotner, K. & Schrøder, K. C. (Eds.) (2013). Museum communication and social media: The connected museum. New York, NY: Routledge.
Gardner, H., & Davis, K. (2013). The App generation: How today’s youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 
Gopinath, S. (2013). The ringtone dialectic: Economy and cultural form. Cambridge, MA: MIT press. 
Hjorth, L., & Arnold, M. (2013). Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific. New York, NY: Routledge. 
Marwick, A. E. (2013). Status update: Celebrity, publicity, and branding in the social media age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Mayer-Schonberger, V., & Cukier, K. (2013). Big data: A revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think. London, UK: John Murray Publishers.
Murthy, D. (2013). Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age. Malden, MA: Polity.
Steiner-Adair, C., & Barker, T. H. (2013). The big disconnect: Protecting childhood and family relationships in the digital age. New York, NY: Harper, 
van Dijck, J. (2013). The culture of connectivity: A critical history of social media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 

2012
Adey, P., Bissell, D., Hannam, K., Merriman, P., & Sheller, M. (Eds). (2012). The Routledge handbook of mobilities. New York, NY: Routledge.
Clark, L. S. (2012). The parent app: Understanding families in the digital age. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
de Souza e Silva, A. & Frith, J. (2012). Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Locational privacy, control, and urban sociability. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Gerbaudo, P. (2012). Tweets and the streets: social media and contemporary activism. New York, NY: Pluto Press. 
Hjorth,L., Burgess, J., & Richardson, I. (Eds.) (2012). Studying mobile media cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Jenkins, H., Ford, S., Green, J., & Green, J. B. (2012). Spreadable media: Creating value and meaning in a networked culture. New York, NY: NYU Press.
Madianou, M. & Miller, D. (2012). Migration and new media: Transnational families and polymedia. New York, NY: Routledge.
Martin, C., von Pape, T. (Eds.) (2012). Images in mobile communication: New content, new uses, new perspectives. Springer.
Molz, J. G. (2012). Travel connections: Tourism, technology and togetherness in a mobile world. New York, NY: Routledge.
Rainie, L., & Wellman, B. (2012). Networked: The new social operating system. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.  
Rheingold, H. (2012). Net smart: How to thrive online. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.  
Snickars, P., & Vonderau, P. (2012). Moving data: The iPhone and the future of media. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.  
Turkle, S. (2012). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. New York, NY: Basic Books. 
Wilken, R., & Goggin, G. (Eds.) (2012). Mobile technology and place. New York, NY: Routledge.  


2011
Farman, J. (2011). Mobile interface theory: Embodied space and locative media. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2011). Net locality: Why location matters in a networked world. Chichester, West Sussex, UK Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.  
Gregg, M. (2011). Work's intimacy. Malden, MA: Polity. 
Turkle, S. (2011). Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. New York. NY: Basic Books.  

2010
Baym, N. (2010). Personal connections in the digital age. Malden, MA: Polity. Donald, S. H., Anderson, T. D. & Spry, D. (Eds.) (2010). Youth, society and mobile media in Asia. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Elliott, A., & Urry, J. (2010). Mobile lives. New York, NY: Routledge. 
Goggin, G. (2010). Global mobile media. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Höflich, J. R., Kircher, G. F., Linke, C., & Schlote, I. (Eds.) (2010). Mobile media and the change of everyday life. Berlin: Peter Lang.  

2009
Ally, M. (Ed.) (2009). Mobile learning: Transforming the delivery of education and training. Athabasca University Press. eBook: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120155  
de Bruijn, M., Nyamnjoh, F., & Nyamnjoh, F. (Eds.) (2009). Mobile phones: The new talking drums of everyday Africa. Langaa RPCIG.  
de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M. (Eds.) (2009). Digital cityscapes: Merging digital and urban playspaces. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 
Donald, S. H., Anderson, T. & Spry, D. (Eds). (2009). Youth, society and mobile media in Asia. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Lloyd, C., Rickard, S. & Goggin, G. (Eds.) (2009). Placing Mobile Communications. Australian Journal of Communication.  

2008
Baron, N. S. (2008). Always on: Language in an online and mobile world. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.  
Bull, M. (2008). Sound moves: iPod culture and urban experience. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Crystal, D. (2008). Txtng: The Gr8 Db8. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 
Goggin, G. & Hjorth, L. (Eds.) (2008). Mobile technologies: From telecommunications to media. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Hawk, B., Rieder, D. M., & Oviedo, O. (Eds.) (2008). Small tech: The culture of digital tools (Electronic Mediations). University of Minnesota Press.
Hjorth, L. (2008). Mobile phone culture in the Asia Pacific: The art of being mobile. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Kalba, K. (2008). The global adoption and diffusion of mobile phones. Harvard University.
Kolb, L. (2008). Toys to tools: Connecting student cell phones to education. International Society for Technology in Education.
Kroski, E. (2008). On the move with the mobile web: Libraries and mobile technologies. Library Technology Reports, 44(5). 1-48. Full Text Available At http://eprints.rclis.org/15024/1/mobile_web_ltr.pdf 
Wittkower, D. E. (Ed.) (2008). iPod and philosophy: iCon of an epoch. Chicago, IL: Open Court.  

2007
Arminen, I. (Ed.)(2007). SPECIAL ISSUE: Mobile media and communication: Reconfiguring human experience and social practices? PsychNology Journal, 5 (1). http://www.psychnology.org/372.php
Caron, A. H., & Caronia, L. (2007). Moving cultures: Mobile communication in everyday life. McGill-Queen's University Press.  
Dahlgren, P. (Ed.) (2007). Young citizens and new media: Learning for democratic participation. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Goggin , G. (Ed.) (2007). Mobile Phone Cultures special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture, 21(2).  
Goggin, G., & Hjorth, L. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of mobile media 2007. University of Sydney.  
Hanson, J. (2007). 24/7: How cell phones and the Internet change the way we Live, work, and play. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.  
Kleinman, S. (Ed.) (2007). Displacing place: Mobile communication in the twenty-first century. Peter Lang Publishing.  
Koskinen, I. (2007). Mobile multimedia in action. Transaction Publishers.  
Kurvinen, E. (2007). Prototyping social action. Taideteollinen korkeakoulu.  
Kushchu, I. (2007). Mobile government: An emerging direction in E-government. IGI Publishing.  
Pertierra, R. (Ed.) (2007). The social construction and usage of communication technologies: Asian and European experiences. Diliman, Quezon City: The University of the Philippines Press.  
Peters, O. (2007). Social psychological determinants of mobile communication technology use and adoption. A comparison of three models to explain and predict mobile communication technology behavior. Enschede, NL: University of Twente. ISBN: 978-90-365-2595-4. An electronic copy (PDF) is freely available on request: o.peters@utwente.nl  
Sullivan, N. P. (2007). You can hear me now : How microloans and cell phones are connecting the world's poor to the global economy. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Williams, A. (2007). Portable music and its functions. New York, NY: Peter Lang Pub Inc.  

2006
Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Qiu, J. L., & Sey, A. (2006). Mobile communication and society: A global perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Glotz, P., Bertschi, S., & Locke, C. (Eds.)(2006). Knowledge, Technology & Policy: Mobile Phones and Mass Communications, 19(2).  
Glotz, P., Bertschi, S., & Locke, C. (Eds.)(2006). Knowledge, Technology & Policy: Mobile Phones and Society. 19(1).  
Goggin, G. (2006). Cell phone culture: Mobile technology in everyday life. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Goggin, G., & Thomas, J. (Eds).(2006). Special issue of Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 38(3).  
Gow, G., & Smith, R. (2006). Mobile and wireless communications: An introduction. New York, NY: Open University Press.  
Hoflich, J. R., & Hartmann, M. (Eds.) (2006). Mobile communication in everyday life: Ethnographic views, observations and reflections. Berlin, Germany: Frank & Timme.
Horst, H., & Miller, D. (2006). The cell phone: An anthropology of communication. New York, NY: Berg Publishers.  
Kavoori, A. P., & Arceneaux, N. (Eds.) (2006). The cell phone reader: Essays in social transformation. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.  
Kellerman, A. (2006). Personal mobilities. New York, NY: Routledge.  
Kraut, R., Brynin, M., & Kiesler, S. (Eds.) (2006). Computers, phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.  
Pertierra, R. (2006). Transforming technologies, altered selves: Mobile phone and Internet use in the Philippines. Malate, Manila, Philippines: De La Salle University Press.  
Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (Eds.) (2006). Mobile technologies of the city. New York, NY: Routledge.  

2005
Agar, J. (2005). Constant touch: A global history of the mobile phone. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books.  
Andriessen, J. H. E., & Vartiainen, M. (Eds.) (2005). Mobile virtual work: A new paradigm? Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.  
Glotz, P., Bertschi, S., & Locke, C. (Eds.) (2005). Thumb culture: The meaning of mobile phones for society. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.  
Hamill, L., & Lasen, A. (Eds.) (2005). Mobile world: Past, present and future. New York, NY: Springer.  
Ito, M., Okabe, D., & Matsuda, M. (Eds.) (2005). Personal, portable, pedestrian: Mobile phones in Japanese life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kahney, L. (2005). The Cult of iPod. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press. 

2004
Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Qiu, J. L., & Sey, A. (2004). The mobile communication society: A cross-cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses. University of Southern California.  
Levinson, P. (2004). Cellphone: The story of the world's most mobile medium and how it has transformed everything! New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.  
Sheller, M., & Urry, J. (2004). Tourism mobilities: Places to play, places in play. New York, NY: Routledge. 

2003
Agar, J. (2003). Constant touch: A global history of the mobile phone. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books. 
Harkin, J. (2003). Mobilisation: The growing public interest in mobile technology. Demos.
Kasesniemi, E.-L. (2003). Mobile message: Young people and a new communication culture. Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press.  

2002
Pertierra, R., Ugarte, E. , Pingol, A., Hernandez, J., & Dacanay, N. (2002). Txt-ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. De La Salle University Press, Manila, Philippines.  
Rheingold , H. (2002). Smart mobs: The next social revolution. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing.  

2000
Bull, M. (2000). Sounding out the city: Personal stereos and the management of everyday life. New York, NY: Berg.  
Kopomaa, T. (2000). The city in your pocket: Birth of the mobile information society. Helsinki, Finland: Gaudeamus Kirja.  

1992
Fischer, C. (1992). America Calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.