Frank & Timme Mobile Communication in Everyday Life

The mobile phone has become an integral part of our everyday life communication ¿ in this sense a domestication of a ¿nomadic¿ medium has taken place. For the very reason that the telephone has left its fixed home environment, it requires us to take an ¿ethnographic view¿ in describing both this development and the changes taking place therein. "Mobile Communication in Everyday Life" takes a closer look at the mobile phone as an object of inquiry in the tradition of the so-called media ethnography. Consequently, the benefits and limitations of such research designs are the focus of the book. Some contributions focus on the tension between private and public communication, others on cultural dimensions. Overall, the book presents a range of the most up-to-date research in the field of mobile communication.