Mobile Phone Cultures

<p>What do we really know about mobile phone culture? This provocative and comprehensive collection explores the cultural and media dimensions of mobile phones around the world. </p><p>An international team of contributors look at how mobiles have been imagined through advertising and social representations - tracing the scripting and shaping of the technology through gender sexuality religion communication style - and explore the locations of mobile phone culture in modernity urban settings and even transnational families. </p><p>This book also provides a guide to convergent mobile phone culture with fresh innovative accounts of text messaging Blackberry camera phones moblogging and mobile adventures in television. <em>Mobile Phone Culture</em> opens up important new perspectives on how we understand this intimate yet public cultural technology.</p><p>Previously published as a special issue of <em>Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.</em></p>