Katz, J. E. (ed.) (2003). Machines that become us: The social context of personal communication technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
by James E. Katz
 
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives
2. Do Machines Become Us?
by James E. Katz
3. Understanding Information and Communication Technology and Infrastructure in Everyday Life
by Mark Aakhus
4. Domestication and Mobile
by Leslie Haddon
5.

Communication Technology and Sociability: Between Local Ties and "Global Ghetto"?
Chantal de Gournay and Zbigniew Smoreda

6. The Human Body: Natural and Artificial Technology
by Leopoldina Fortunati
 
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
by 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
13. Two Modes of Maintaining Interpersonal Relations Through Telephone: From the Domestic to the Mobile Phone
by Christian Licoppe
14. Culture and Design for Mobile Phones for China
by LiAnne Yu and Tai Hou Tng
   
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
17. Crossbreeding Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing: A Design Experience
by Jennica Falk and Staffan Bjork
18. 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
21. Piercing, Tattoos, and Branding: Latent and Profound Reasons for Body Manipulations
by Anna Maria Grossi
22. "Perhaps It is a Body Part": How the Mobile Phone Became an Organic Part of the Everyday Lives of Finnish Children and Teenagers
by Virpi Oksman and Pirjo Rautiainen
   
Coda
23. Bodies, Machines, and Communication Contexts: What is to become of Us?
by James E. Katz.
   
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