Nicola Green

TL;DR: It is argued that while these mobile temporalities are emerging, and offer new ways of acting in and perceiving time and space, the practical construction of mobile time in everyday life remains firmly connected to well-established time-based social practices, whether these be institutional, work time, or subjective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how mobile technology is changing the way people interact and cooperate with each other, and how this change can be analyzed, and they found that mobile phones are the most successful computer-based consumer product of the age.

TL;DR: The role of the consumer in the diffusion of mobile telecommunications technologies is considered, and the now well attested view that the diffusion and consumption of mobile telephony and computing cannot be understood without investigating the contexts and processes of their use in everyday life is reiterated.

Abstract: The cellphone has achieved a global presence faster than any other form of information and communication technology. A global multi-billion dollar industry, this small, mundane device is now an intrinsic part of our everyday life.This communications medium has had an immense social and cultural impact and continues to evolve. Talking, texting, photographing, videoing, connecting to a network of other media the cellphone now seems essential. But, beyond the ways in which it has actively restructured our daily lives, thecellphone has changed our sense of ourselves and the way we see the world. The relationship between public and private space, how we view time and space, how we rely on and negotiate social networks all are increasingly centred on this small piece of technology. Mobile Communications presents a succinct, challenging, and accessible overview of the transformations and challenges presented by this most personal, yet most overlooked, technology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take as their starting point two instances of social relations, one drawn from what might be termed "popular culture" and the other drawn from observational research, and offer some tentative thoughts on an issue that has recently become a subject of public debate -the capability of mobile technologies, especially emerging location-based services, to act as technologies of "surveillance".