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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Digital Divides and Social Mobility | |
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| The Mobile Makes Its Mark | |
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| Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion | |
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| Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana | |
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| Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China | |
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| Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions | |
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| Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication | |
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| Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt | |
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| How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone | |
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| Sociality and Co-presence | |
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| Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self | |
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| The Mobile Phone's Ring | |
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| Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function | |
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| The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone | |
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| Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control | |
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| Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand | |
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| The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan | |
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| Politics and Social Change | |
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| Mobile Media and Political Collective Action | |
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| Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences | |
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| Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World | |
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| Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly | |
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| The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society | |
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| Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process | |
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| Culture and Imagination | |
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| Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel | |
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| "Express Yourself" and "Stay Together": The Middle-Class Indian Family | |
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| Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania | |
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| Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication | |
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| Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment | |
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| Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia | |
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| Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences | |
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| Mobile Games and Entertainment | |
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| Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea | |
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| Conclusions and Future Prospects | |
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| Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects | |
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| Afterword | |
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| About the Editor and Authors | |
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| Index | |