Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society (Paperback)

Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society Book Description

Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles fascinating approaches and new insights of leading scientists and practitioners. It contains the results of a first international survey on the social consequences of mobile phones and provides a comprehensive inventory of today's issues and an outlook in mobile media, society, and their future study.

About the Author :

Peter Glotz has contributed to Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society as an editor. Peter Glotz is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Stefan Bertsch has contributed to Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society as an editor. Stefan Bertschi is a researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Christopher Locke has contributed to Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society as an editor. Locke publishes Entropy Gradient Reversals from Boulder, Colorado, He has worked for Fujitsu, Ricoh, Carnegie Mellon University, Mecklermedia, MCI, and IBM, and has written extensively for publicatioins such as Forbes, Byte, Internet World, Information Week, and The Industry Standard.

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