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Contributors |
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Contents |
7 |
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Introduction: Digital Revolution – Mobile Revolution? |
9 |
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Part 1 Lessons from the Past |
18 |
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1 Mobile Telephony: Realising the Dream of Ideal Communication? |
19 |
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2 History Repeating? A Comparison of the Launch and Uses of Fixed and Mobile Phones |
37 |
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3 Kids will be Kids: The Role of Mobiles in Teenage Life |
69 |
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4 An SMS History |
83 |
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Part 2 Present Uses |
101 |
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5 Emotional Attachment to Mobile Phones: An Extraordinary Relationship |
103 |
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6 Textmates and Text Circles: Insights into the Social Ecology of SMS Text Messaging |
113 |
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7 Appropriating Tools and Shaping Activities: The Use of PDAs in the Workplace |
127 |
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Part 3 How to Study the Future |
149 |
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8 Different Directions in the Mobile Internet: Analysing Mobile Internet Services in Japan and Europe |
151 |
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9 Context Perspectives for Scenarios and Research Development in Mobile Systems |
169 |
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10 Instant Messaging and Presence Services: Mobile Future, CSCW and Ethnography |
203 |
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Index |
223 |
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