As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work,
but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant …

The media landscape has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one predominated
by traditional mass communication formats to today's more personalized network …

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 …

The adoption of the mobile phone by young people has been a global phenomenon in
recent years. It is now an integral part of adolescents' daily lives and is for the majority, the …

This chapter explores public mobile communication technology as a design aesthetic. It
addresses the mobile phone from the standpoint of its commercial origins and public …

This chapter investigates young people's relationship to mobile telephony within a cultural
and social perspective. Unlike quantitative examinations of telephone behavior (Katz 1999) …

Using data collected among 742 respondents, this article aims at gaining greater insight into
(i) the interaction between face-to-face (F2F) and electronic contacts,(ii) the influence of …

In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of
situated cognition theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind of cognitive ecology …

The Test of Mobile Phone Dependence (TMD) questionnaire evaluates the main features of
mobile phone dependence: tolerance, abstinence syndrome, impaired impulse control …

Drawing from the results of focus group interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010 in
Japan, this paper examines the functions of emoji. Now that emoji have gained global …