Foundations of mobile media studies : essential texts on the formation of a field / edited by Jason Farman.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Making voice portable: the early history of the cell phone / Gerard Goggin -- 2. Theorizing mobile communication in the intimate sphere / Rich Ling -- 3. New technologies, new mobilities / Anthony Elliott and John Urry -- 4. Mobilizing place: conceptual currents and controversies / Rowan Wilken and Gerard Goggin -- 5. Reappropriating socai lmedia / Thérèse F. Teirney -- 6. Walking phone workers / Lisa Parks -- 7. Mobile media on low-cost handsets: the resiliency of text messaging among small enterprises in India (and beyond) / Jonathan Donner -- 8. Domesticating cartographies: gendered mobile media in the region / Larissa Hjorth -- 9. These foolish things: on intimacy and insignificance in mobile media / Kate Crawford -- 10. Does mobile matter?: the case of one-off reading / Naomi S. Baron -- 11. 'To each their own bubble': mobile spaces of sound in the city / Micahel Bull -- 12. Locational privacy / Adriana de Souza e Silva and Jordan Frith -- 13. When urban public places become "Hybrid ecologies": proximity-based game encounters in Dragon quest 9 in France and Japan / Christian Licoppe and Yoriko Inada -- 14. 24: conspiracy and the mobile phone: immersion and immediacy / Elizabeth Evans -- 15. Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography / Chris Chesher.

We are people on the move and our media match these on-the-go lifestyles. As mobile phones have become globally pervasive, researchers from a broad range of backgrounds have offered important ways of understanding this massive shift in media use. "Foundations of Mobile Media Studies" gathers some of the most important texts in this emerging field, offering readers key approaches to understanding our moment and our media. The impact of mobile media is far reaching and this book discusses topics such as human intimacy, social space, political uprisings, labor, mobile phones in the developing world, gender, the mobile device's impact on reading, mobile television, and mobile photography, among others. This carefully curated collection will serve as the central text to introduce this field to anyone eager to understand the rise of mobile technology, its impact on our relationships, and how these media have transformed the ways we understand the world around us.