Includes bibliographical references and index.

The question of mobile media / Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth -- Intimate connections : the impact of the mobile phone on work life boundaries / Judy Wajcman, Michael Bittman and Jude Brown -- Gender and the mobile phone / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Children's broadening use of mobile phones / Leslie Haddon and Jane Vincent -- Mobile communication and teen emancipation / Rich Ling -- Mobile media and the transformation of family / Misa Matsuda -- Purikura as a social management tool / Daisuke Okabe ... [et al.] -- Mobile media on low-cost handsets : the resiliency of text messaging among small enterprises in India (and beyond) / Jonathan Donner -- Innovations at the edge : the impact of mobile technologies on the character of the internet / Harmeet Sawnhey -- Media contents in mobiles : comparing video, audio and text / Virpi Oksman -- New economics for the new media / Stuart Cunningham and Jason Potts -- Domesticating new media : a discussion on locating mobile media / Larissa Hjorth -- Back to the future : the past and present of mobile TV / Gabriele Balbi and Benedetta Prario -- Net-drive : conceiving and producing a locative media artwork / Atau Tanaka and Petra Gemeinboeck -- Mobile news in Chinese newspaper groups : a case study of Yunnan daily press group / Liu Cheng and Axel Bruns -- Re-inventing newspapers in a digital era : the mobile e-paper / Wendy Van den Broeck, Bram Lievens and Jo Pierson -- Face to face : avatars and mobile identities / Kathy Cleland -- Re-imagining urban space : mobility, connectivity, and a sense of place / Dong-Hoo Lee -- These foolish things : on intimacy and insignificance in mobile media / Kate Crawford -- Mobility, memory and identity / Nicola Green.