[Air-L] Recommendations on mobile (phone) tech books

[Jordan Frith]

Sarah,
Here are a few ideas on some books that may be useful.

For a fun and lively history of the mobile phone:
Agar, J. (2005). Constant touch: A global history of the mobile phone.
Cambridge: Totem Publishers.

For a discussion on the development of the mobile phone market in the U.S.
from a business perspective:
Galambos, L., & Abrahamson, E. J. (2002). Anytime, anywhere:
Entrepreneurship and the creation of a wireless world. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

For more of a social/critical take:
 Ito, M., Okabe, D., & Matsuda, M. (Eds.). (2005). Personal, portable,
pedestrian: Mobile phones in japanese life. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Goggin, G. (2006). Cell phone culture: Mobile technology in everyday life.
London ; New York: Routledge.
Goggin, G. (2010). Global mobile media. New York, NY: Routledge.
Katz, J. E., & Aakhus, M. (Eds.). (2002). Perpetual contact: Mobile
communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Glotz, P., Bertschi, S., & Locke, C. (2005). Thumb culture : The meaning of
mobile phones for society. Bielefeld; Piscataway, NJ: Transcript;
Distributed in North America by Transaction Pub.


Hopefully some of those are useful!

Best,
Jordan

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Sarah Roberts <robert50 at illinois.edu>wrote:

> Greetings, all --
>
> I was reading a few book reviews yesterday but thought I would turn to this
> knowledgeable body for recommendations on a good overview text on the
> history and current state of mobile (phone) technology and its social role -
> with emphasis on the latter, rather than on the historical bit.  It could be
> a broader work on mobile tech, but I'm primarily interested in mobile/cell
> phones. I've come across Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication, by Ling and
> Donner, as well as Mobile Communications: An Introduction to New Media by
> Green and Haddon.  Would others immediately recommend something else, in
> addition or in lieu of?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
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