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Mobile devices' impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems, platforms, apps) and media ecosystems (interface design, participatory culture, social media) influence how users deal with the public and private, intimate and personal spheres. Leading researchers in communication, art, computer engineering, education, law, sociology, philosophy, and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication, providing a foundation for further research.
List of contents
Introduction
Ana Serrano Tellería
Part I. Reframing Theories and Methods:
1. The Phases of Mobile Communication Research
Rich Ling
2. Public, no Private in Mobile Communications (towards an Ethics of
Transparency)
Derrick de Kerckhove
Part II. Revisiting Traditional Issues
3. Evolving Patterns of Mobile Call Openings and Closings
Leopoldina Fortunati and Naomi Baron
4. Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life: Skype as a Precursor of Perpetual Visual Contact
James E. Katz and Elisabeth Thomas Crocker
5. Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICTs: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal Spaces
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano and Ruepert Jiel Cao
Part III. Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space
6. The "Smart" Women: How South Asian Women Negotiate their Social
and Cultural Space through Mobile Technology
Ishita Shruti
7. Inscribing Intimacy: Conceptual Frames for Understanding Mobile Media Affect Amparo Lasén and Larissa Hjorth
8. The Afterlife of Intimacy: Selfies, Loss and Intimate Publics
Larissa Hjorth
Part IV: The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright
9. A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users: Self-Disclosure and Network Homogeneity
Kenichi Ishii
10. Doing things with Content: The Impact of Mobile Application Interface in the Uses and Characterization of Media. Juan Miguel Aguado
Inmaculada J. Martínez and Laura Cañete
11. Copyright and User-Generated Content for Mobile Devices: News,
About the author
Ana Serrano Tellería is Assistant Professor at University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain; a Postdoctoral Researcher at LabCom.IFP, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Media Consultant, R+D+i Project Manager; and a journalist and performer.
Summary
Leading researchers in communication, art, computer engineering, education, law, sociology, philosophy, and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication, providing a foundation for further research.
