Mobile Devices/SMS/Instant Messaging Social Science Research
updated 7 january 2007
Several people asked me (Nalini P. Kotamraju) to share my bibliography-in-progress on social science research about mobile devices, mobile phone uses, SMS/texting, and instant messaging, so here it is. Please feel free to send me cites (in any language) to include. Thanks.
added since 16 oct 2006
- New Journal: Wi: Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network. http://wi-not.ca/
- Campbell, S.W. (forthcoming). A cross-cultural comparison of perceptions and uses of mobile telephony. [.doc] New Media & Society.
- Goggin, Gerald (2006). Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. Routledge.
- Horst, Heather and Daniel Miller (2006) The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. Berg
- Kavoori, Anandam and Noah Arceneaux (eds.). The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (Digital Formations). Peter Lang
- Thurlow, C. (2007 in press). Fabricating youth: New-media discourse and the technologization of young people. In Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin (eds), Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies. London: Continuum. http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/papers/thurlow(2007)-draft-chapter.pdf
- Thurlow, C. (2006). From statistical panic to moral panic: The metadiscursive construction and popular exaggeration of new media language in the print media. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 11(3). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/thurlow.htm
- Yung, V. (2006). Brand names, nicknames and numbers: Reconstructing layers of identity for mobile phones in Hong Kong. In Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause (eds.), Cyberlines 2.0: Languages and Cultures of the Internet. James Nicholas.
- Yung, V. (2005). The construction of symbolic values of the mobile phone in the Hong Kong Chinese print media. In Rich Ling and Per E. Pedersen (eds.), Mobile Communications: Re-negotation of the Social Sphere. Springer.
(2005) The Social Impact of Mobile Phone Use in Australia. http://www.dcita.gov.au/communications_and_technology/publications_and_reports/2005/april/the_social_impact_of_mobile_phone_use_in_australia_a_review_of_data_sources