I wanted to let everyone know that our edited anthology is out now, The Mobile Media Reader , ed. by Noah Arceneaux and Anandam Kavoori (Peter Lang, 2012) http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=58429&concordeid=311300
The first set of essays in the book provide historical context for the current growth of mobile media, while the second group of essays explore specific types of content or specific forms of use. I’m pasting the official blurb from the back of the book below, plus the table of contents.
Portable phones were once limited to voice and text messaging, though these devices are now miniature multi-media centers that can fit neatly in one’s pocket. Media industries off all types are adapting content for this new platform, or innovating entirely new forms. In the light of the explosive growth of this technology, The Mobile Media offers a diverse collection of essays that establish conceptual, critical frameworks for evaluating the latest transformation of the media landscape. Some essays explore older phenomenon, such as C.B. radio, automobile radio, and hand-held video games, to provide a historical context, while others unpack the behind-the-scenes negotiations that determine what kinds of services are available to consumers. The Mobile Media Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that is available anywhere at any time.
Table of Contents
Foundations (part one)
1) Historicizing Mobile Media: Locating the Transformations of Embodied Space, by Jason Farman
2) Calling Ahead: Cinematic Imaginations of Mobile Media’s Critical Affordances, by Scott W. Ruston
3) Analog Analogue: U.S. Automotive Radio as Mobile Medium by Matthew A. Killmeier
4) CB Radio: Mobile Social Networking in the 1970s Noah Arceneaux
5) A Brief History of U.S. Mobile Spectrum Thomas W. Hazlett
Forms/Functions (part two)
6) Not TV, Not the Web: Mobile Video Between Openness and Control
Aymar Jean Christian
7) Reading After the Phone: E-readers and Mobile Media Gerard Goggin and Caroline Hamilton
8) As It Happens: Mobile Communications Technology, Journalists and Breaking News Collette Snowden
9) Time and Space in Play: Saving and Pausing with the Nintendo DS Samuel Tobin
10) You Can Ring My Bell and Tap My Phone: Mobile Music, the Ringtone Economy, and the Rise of Apps Ben Aslinger
11) Appropriation of Cell Phones by Kurds: The Social Practice of Struggle for Political Identities in Turkey Burçe Çelik
12) Through the Looking Cell Phone Screen: Dreams of Omniscience in an Age of Mobile Augmented Reality Imar de Vries
Noah Arceneaux
School of Journalism and Media Studies
San Diego State University
noah.arceneaux@sdsu.edu
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