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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life.

Ito, Mizuko.

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (373 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Note on Translation -- Introduction -- 1 Discourses of Keitai in Japan -- 2 Youth Culture and the Shaping of Japanese Mobile Media -- 3 A Decade in the Development of Mobile Communications in Japan (1993-2002) -- 4 The Third-Stage Paradigm -- 5 Japanese Youth and the Imagining of Keitai -- 6 Mobile Communication and Selective Sociality -- 7 The Mobile-izing Japanese -- 8 Accelerating Reflexivity -- 9 Keitai and the Intimate Stranger -- 10 Keitai in Public Transportation -- 11 The Gendered Use of Keitai in Domestic Contexts -- 12 Design of Keitai Technology and Its Use among Service Engineers -- 13 Technosocial Situations -- 14 Keitai Use among Japanese Elementary and Junior High School Students -- 15 Uses and Possibilities of the Keitai Camera -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always-on" social engagement.

9780262256414


Technology - Social aspects - Japan.


Electronic books.

HN727.P47 2005

306.46

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