Perpetual Contact : Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on the contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: framing the issues -- Greater than gods -- A mind- and society-altering technology -- Scholarly lacuna -- More popular than TV -- Framing the mobile phone -- Folk framing -- Expert framing -- A new perspective and a new term: the convergence of the folks and experts -- Looking forward -- References -- Part I Mobile communication: national and comparative perspectives -- 2 Finland: a mobile culture -- Introduction -- Ownership -- The communicative and social aspects of the mobile phone -- Work and leisure -- Public and private -- The mobile phone and Finnish speech culture -- Mobile phones, emotions and lifestyle -- Summing up -- References -- 3 Israel: chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land -- Cellular telephony in Israel: a pattern of growth -- Israelis and technology: a love story -- Patterns of use -- The social setting for interpreting mobile phone usage in Israel -- References -- 4 Italy: stereotypes, true and false -- Introduction -- The basic characteristics of the mobile phone -- Is the mobile phone seen as a communicative instrument? -- Is the mobile phone really a mobile technology? -- Is the mobile phone a metropolitan technology? -- Is the mobile phone a really portable technology? -- Is the mobile phone a technology of intimacy? -- The reasons for the success of the mobile phone -- The mobile phone and ethical and aesthetic dimensions -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Korea: personal meanings -- Introduction -- Thesis -- Remarks on data -- Conditions for fast diffusion -- Korean social characteristics -- Life after work and the use of mobile phones -- Forming a new order? -- Appendix -- References.