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
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