Katz, J. E. (ed.) (2003). Machines that become us: The social context of personal communication technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
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| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| 1. |
Introduction
by James E. Katz |
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| Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives |
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Do Machines Become Us?
by James E. Katz
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| 3. |
Understanding Information and Communication Technology and Infrastructure in Everyday Life
by Mark Aakhus
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| 4. |
Domestication and Mobile
by Leslie Haddon |
| 5. |
Communication Technology and Sociability: Between Local Ties and "Global Ghetto"?
Chantal de Gournay and Zbigniew Smoreda
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| 6. |
The Human Body: Natural and Artificial Technology
by
Leopoldina Fortunati |
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| Part 2: National and Cross-Cultural Studies |
| 7. |
Digital Divides of the Internet and Mobile Phone: Structural Determinants of the Social Context of Communication Technologies
by
Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz |
| 8. |
Social Capital and the New Communication Technologies
by
Axel Franzen |
| 9. |
Information and Communication Technology in Russian Families
by
Olga Vershinskaya |
| 10. |
Face and Place: The Mobile Phone and Internet in the Netherlands
by
Enid Mante and Jeroen Heres |
| 11. |
Communication Anxiety Among "Smart" Dutch Computer Users
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J. J. Beckers, E. Mante and H. G. Schmidt |
| 12. |
The Social Context of the Mobile Phone Use of Norwegian Teens
by
Truls Erik Johnsen |
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Two Modes of Maintaining Interpersonal Relations Through Telephone: From the Domestic to the Mobile Phone
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Christian Licoppe |
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Culture and Design for Mobile Phones for China
by
LiAnne Yu and Tai Hou Tng |
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| Part 3: Subcultures, Technologies, and Fashion |
| 15. |
Outwardly Mobile: Young People and Mobile Technologies
by
Nicola Green |
| 16. |
Breaking Time and Place: Mobile Technologies and Reconstituted Identities
by
Linnda R. Caporael and Bo Xie |
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Crossbreeding Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing: A Design Experience
by
Jennica Falk and Staffan Bjork |
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Mobile Telephony, Mobility, and the Coordination of Everyday Life
by
Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon |
| 19. |
Soft Machine
by
Elda Danese |
| 20. |
Aesthetics in Microgravity
by
Annalisa Dominoni |
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Piercing, Tattoos, and Branding: Latent and Profound Reasons for Body Manipulations
by
Anna Maria Grossi |
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"Perhaps It is a Body Part": How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers
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Virpi Oksman and Pirjo Rautiainen |
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| Coda |
| 23. |
Bodies, Machines, and Communication Contexts: What is to become of Us?
by
James E. Katz. |
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| About the Editor and Contributors |
| Index |