Personal, portable, pedestrian : mobile phones in Japanese life / / edited by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ito, Mizuko.; Okabe, Daisuke.; Matsuda, Misa, 1968-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 357 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Discourses of keitai in Japan / Misa Matsuda -- Youth culture and the shaping of Japanese mobile media: personalization and the keitai internet as multimedia / Tomoyuki Okada -- A decade in the development of mobile communications in Japan (1993-2002) / Kenji Kohiyama -- The third-stage paradigm: territory machines from the girls' pager revolution to mobile aesthetics / Kenichi Fujimoto -- Japanese youth and the imagining of keitai / Haruhiro Kato -- Mobile communication and selective sociality / Misa Matsuda -- The mobile-izing Japanese: connecting to the internet by pc and webphone in Yamanashi / Kakuko Miyata, ...[et al.] -- Accelerating reflexivity / Ichiyo Habuchi -- Keitai and the intimate stranger / Hidenori Tomita -- Keitai in public transportation / Daisuke Okabe, Mizuko Ito -- The gendered use of keitai in domestic contexts / Shingo Dobashi -- Design of keitai technology and its use among service engineers / Eriko Tamaru, Noki Ueno -- Technosocial situations: emergent structuring of mobile e-mail use / Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe -- Keitai use among Japanese elementary and junior high school students / Yukiko Miyaki -- Uses and possibilities of the keitai camera / Fumitoshi Kato, ...[et al.].