[Air-l] SMS and cell phone research

[Patricia Lange]

I would recommend The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of
Communication by Horst and Miller.

Patricia G. Lange, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Annenberg Center for Communication
University of Southern California

--- Redante Asuncion-Reed <redantereed at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> I am a graduate student in the American University
> School of Communications. I am doing my master's
> theses on the use of cell phones and sms messaging
> in activism, particularly in Africa by an NGO called
> FAHAMU.
> 
> The broad question I seek to explore is if the use
> of social media technology by social activist
> organizations have made them more effective in their
> work? FAHAMU's use of cell phones and sms activism
> will be my case study to narrow it down to
> manageable size.
> 
> I have a lot of Internet websites and a set of mass
> market books I will use:
> 
> Momentum by Allison Fine
> Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold
> The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
> 
> What I lack are scholarly and academic research to
> give me a theoretical framework to work with.I have
> been scanning Prof. Barry Wellman's web site and
> sense that some of his research on social networks
> and the Internet might be applicable but I can't
> identify a particular paper or book yet that is
> right for my research.
> 
> Can I ask the advice of the list members on what
> books, journal articles, and other scholarly sources
> might be helpful for my research?
> 
> Regards,
> Redante
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
>
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