[Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility(Intern)

Wed Jan 12 22:26:57 PST 2005

Her are a couple of things you might want to look at.  First there are a couple of books that are article collections:

Katz, J. E. and Aakhus, M. 2002. "Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   

Fortunati, L., et al. 2003. "Mediating the human body: Technology, Communication and Fashion." London: Lawrence Erlbaum.

There is also the book Machines that become us edited by Katz

I have a book out:

Ling, R. 2004. The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Leslie Haddon has just come out with a more general book on ICTs in everyday life

Haddon, L. 2004 Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life : A Concise Introduction and Research Guide

There are some Finnish books on design.  I don't have their titles right here but Ilpo Koskinen at the University of art and design, Helsinki is a good place to start there.

Also Nalini Kotamraju at Berkeley has done a wonderful service by collecting much of the literature in the area into a Mobile Phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research bibliography.  You can see that at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalinik/mobile.html

Let me know if this helps.  

I would be interested to hear about your research proposal.

Rich L. 

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Rich-

By all means, point me in the direction of this likterature.  Thanks.

Andrew

Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
CANADA
519 884-1970 x3693
>>> richard-seyler.ling at telenor.com 01/12/05 4:16 PM >>>
Hi,

There is a lot of work going on in relation to mobile telephony.  I know
that the Blackberry is somewhat different in terms of technology and the
way that it is used.  However, there is a growing literature on mobile
communications and the social consequences of that.  There is also a
pretty good design literature in that area.  A lot of this literature is
based on qualitative analyses.  There is also a pretty good number of
quantitative analyses in this area.

Let me know if you are interested in this type of literature.

Rich Ling

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Dear Friends-

I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the
Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a
multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development
of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in
Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience),
advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and
ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life.  What I have mind is a
comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and
his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES
series.

So, I have two requests for the AOIR commmunity:

1)I would appreciate any references concerning the topic of Internet
mobility generally and the Blackberry and/or other hand-held device more
specifically.  

2)Depending on how fruitful the initial research is, I would be
interested in partnering with other scholars interested in this topic
with eye towards submitting a MCRI (Major Collborative Research Grant)
to the Social Science and Humanities Reserach Council here in Canada. 
The SSHRC encourages international collaboration, but the majority of
co-applicants must be affiliated with Canadian institutions. Let me know
if you are interested, especially if you are north of the 49th parallel.

Thanks in advance for your assistance and interest.

Andrew Herman

Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
CANADA
519 884-1970 x3693
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