ABSTRACT
Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems, platforms, apps) and media ecosystems (interface design, participatory culture, social media) influence how users deal with the public and private, intimate and personal spheres. Leading researchers in communication, art, computer engineering, education, law, sociology, philosophy, and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication, providing a foundation for further research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|29 pages
Reframing Theories and Methods
part 2|64 pages
Revisiting Traditional Issues
chapter 4|17 pages
Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life
chapter 5|22 pages
Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICT
part 3|53 pages
Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space
chapter 6|21 pages
The “Smart” Women
part 4|65 pages
The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright
chapter 9|22 pages
A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users
chapter 10|24 pages
Doing Things with Content
chapter 11|19 pages
Copyright and User-Generated Contents for Mobile Devices
part 5|60 pages
The New Generations on the Mobile Ecosystem
chapter 12|24 pages
Educating for Privacy in the Digital and Mobile Ecosystems
part 6|66 pages
The Empowered User and the Media