Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy

ISBN-13: 9781138512276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str.

James E. Katz

Opis

In the few short decades since their commercial deployment, 5 billion people about three-quarters of all humanity, including children have become mobile phone users

Spis treści

1: Editor’s Introduction; 2: Overview: Surveying the Terrain; 3: Mobile Communication and Socio-Technical Change; 4: Sustainable Early Warning Systems: HazInfo Sri Lanka; 5: Mobile Communication and the Environment; 6: Mobile Phones’ Role following China’s 2008 Earthquake; 7: Social Networks and Policy Knowledge during the 2008 US Presidential Election; 8: Mobile-mediated Publics in South Africa’s 2009 Elections; 9: EMF Social Policy and Youth Mobile Phone Practices in Canada; 10: Mobile Communication Policies in the Workplace: The Case of U.S. State Governments; 11: ICT Use and Female Migrant Workers in Singapore; 12: Can You Take It with You? Mobility, ICTs and Work-Life Balance; 13: M-enabled Learning: The Mobile Phone’s Contribution to Education; 14: Lifeworld Keys and Intractable Objects: Privacy, Politics, and Mobile Symbolic Meanings in Italy; 15: Mobile Political Campaigns: The Nexus of Mass Content and Private Consumption; 16: Disability, Mobiles, and Social Policy: New Modes of Communication and Governance; 17: Social Participation and Mobile Communication; 18: Technological Rabbits and Communication Turtles; 19: Conclusion

O autorze

James E. Katz