Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life

摘要

Gerard Goggin explores the ways in which mobile telecommunications, and the cell phone in particular, are implicated in changing cultural patterns. His book is global in scope-as studies in mobile phone cultures must be-comparative in style, and rich in observation and insight. Under the sign of "culture" Goggin takes in everything from novel ways of communication (text or SMS) and disruptive behaviors ("happy slapping") and resulting cultural reactions ("moral panics" about youth and health) to celebrity scandals (David Beckham, cricketer Shane Warne, and sundry royals), TV show voting (Australian Idol), and digital photography as a new way of seeing.