TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caron,André H.
AU  - Caronia,Letizia
TI  - Moving Cultures: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life
SN  - 9780773576575
AV  - P94.6 .C373 2007 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Communication-Technological innovations-Social aspects
KW  - Mobile communication systems-Social aspects
KW  - Communication and culture
KW  - Communication-Social aspects
KW  - Technology and youth
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 New Social Scenarios -- Looking for the "Where" and "Who" of Our Communications -- Delocalization -- Multilocalization -- From Identity to Identification -- The Chronic Symptoms of Our Time -- Wasting Time to Save Time -- Technologies in the Rear-View Mirror -- Synchrony, Asynchrony, Polychrony -- The Death of Silence? -- Seeking Noise -- Seeking Silence -- Communication: Between Noise and Silence -- Social Actors: Locations and Links -- 2 Speaking Objects, Acting Words: New Communication Practices -- Technologies and Everyday Construction of Culture -- Technologies as Statements: The Performative Force of Social Objects -- Technologies That Make Us Do -- The Contemporary "Nutcracker": The Cascade Effect and the Interrelation of Technologies -- Reflexivity at Play: The Interaction between Technology and Culture -- The Discursive Origin of the Meaning of Things -- Common Sense, Technologies, and Daily Life -- Doing with Words: Language, Interaction, and Culture -- Individual Sense-Making and Dominant Discourse -- Discourse on Technologies as a Meaning-Making Device -- 3 Life Stories of Technologies in Everyday Life -- How to Domesticate Technology -- Life Stories of Technological Objects -- Geographically Migrating Technologies -- Unexpected Uses: When New Technologies Perform Old Functions -- A Cascade of Adoptions and a Cascade of Communications -- From Communicating Something Urgent to the Urgency of Communicating: Reasons for Adoption and Anticipated Uses -- 4 Now Playing: Mobiles, Discourses, and Advertising -- Discourses of the Past and Simple Future -- Type and Stereotype -- Kitsch and Discriminatory Humour -- Talk Young, Talk Ads -- And Elsewhere -- Communicating at Any Price and All Cost -- All Included, Even Friends? -- Differences in Similarity; Mobile for Every Situation -- 5 Language, Interaction, and Mobile Culture: Field Research among Teenagers -- New Rites of Passage: Technology Ownership as Symbolic Threshold -- Linguistic Creativity and Cultural Innovation -- Teenagers' Mobile Culture: The Shaping Role of Everyday Discourse -- Making the Familiar Strange: A Chronology of Field Research -- Culture in Action: Adolescents as Cultural Translators -- Naturally Occurring Mobile Conversations: Social and Cultural Microcosms -- 6 Displaying Identities in Urban Space: How Do Young People Talk on Mobile Phones? -- Telephone Conversations as Linguistic Patchworks -- Speaking "Teenager" -- "Bad" Language and New Technologies: An Identity-Producing Synergy -- Crossing Linguistic Boundaries: Cultural Identity on the Mobile -- Cultural References in Teenagers' Mobile Conversations -- Belonging to a Community of Practices: Geek Language and Culture -- Crossing Words and Cultures by Mobile Phone -- 7 Mobile Culture in Everyday Life: Teenagers Talking on Their Mobiles -- Making Sense of Space: Where Do Young People Talk on Their Mobile Phones? -- Repertoire of Cultural Reasons: Technologies and Teenagers' Laziness -- Domesticating Technologies: Vegging, Doing Nothing, and Talking on the Mobile -- Breaking the Rules: The Implicit Logic of Mobile Phone Use -- Being a Couple": Maps of Everyday Life and Simulacra of Proximity -- Live Narrating of Everyday Life: Storytelling on the Mobile Phone -- Mobile Phone Use as a Friendship-Building Activity -- Guess Where I Am: Delocalization as a Social Game -- Borrowed Calls and Co-Conversations -- Saturday Night: Telephone Organization or Social Control? -- Who Is Where Tonight: The Mobile Phone as a Panoptikon -- The Ritual Meeting: Micro-Organization through Mobile Calls -- Domestication of a Technology and Cultural Changes; 8 SMS in Everyday Life: Ethnography of a Secret Language -- Text-Messaging in Peer Culture: A Field Study -- The Secret Language of SMS -- Inventing a Code: Mini-Messages as Secret Handshakes -- Hidden Communication: SMS in Teens' Underground Life -- The Thumb Generation: SMS Conversations -- Text-Messaging as an Interactive Phenomenon: Social Organization and Linguistic Creativity -- Putting Everyday Life into Words: Gossiping in SMS -- Verbal Performances: Flirting in SMS -- Teenagers' Techno-Language across Contexts -- 9 Intergenerational Communication: Changes, Constants, and New Models -- The ON Generation versus the OFF Generation -- Co-Construction of Family Boundaries by Technology -- Gift and Counter-Gift -- Listen to Your Father and Mother, or Your Mobile? -- The Mobile Phone: Tool for Transgression? -- Being Free Together -- 10 Mobile Communication as Social Performance: New Ethics, New Politeness, New Aesthetics -- Storytelling about Technologies: Urban Legends and Personal Narratives -- Telephone Conversation as Social Performance -- New Ethics for New Social Encounters -- Politeness Rules: Manners for Mobile Use -- Biomorphism or Sociomorphism? Emboding New Communication Technologies -- New Aesthetics or New Self-Perceptions? -- Between Globalization and Localization: A Few Conclusive Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
N2  - The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell phones and blackberries in their social and cultural lives
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