1 Introduction / James E. Katz, 1
DIGITAL DIVIDES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark / Lara Srivastava, 15
3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion / Jonathan Donner, 29
4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana / Ragnhild Overa, 43
5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng, 55
6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions / Judith Mariscal and Carla Marisa Bonina, 65
7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication / Jan Chipchase, 79
8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt / Patricia Mechael, 91
9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone / Lourdes M. Portus, 105
SOCIALITY AND CO-PRESENCE
10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self / Sherry Turkle, 121
11 The Mobile Phone's Ring / Christian Licoppe, 139
12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function / Scott Campbell, 153
13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone / Richard S. Ling, 165
14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control / Naomi S. Baron, 177
15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand / Peter B. White and Naomi Rosh White, 195
16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan / Kakuko Miyata, Jeffrey Boase, and Barry Wellman, 209
POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action / Howard Rheingold, 225
18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences / Ilpo Koskinen, 241
19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World / Mohammad Ibahrine, 257
20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly / On-Kwok Lai, 273
21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society / Shahiraa Sahul Hameed, 285
22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process / Kenneth J. Gergen, 297
CULTURE AND IMAGINATION
23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel / Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud, 313
24 ''Express Yourself'' and ''Stay Together'': The Middle-Class Indian Family / Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Molly Wright Steenson, and Carolyn Wei, 325
25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania / Thomas Molony, 339
26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication / Gerard Goggin, 353
27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment / James E. Katz, Katie M. Lever, and Yi-Fan Chen, 367
28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia / Bart Barendregt and Raul Pertierra, 377
29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences / Madanmohan Rao and Mira Desai, 389
30 Mobile Games and Entertainment / James E. Katz and Sophia Krzys Acord, 403
31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea / Youn-ah Kang, 419
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects / James E. Katz, 433
Afterword / Manuel Castells, 447