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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historicizing mobile media: locating the transformations of embodied space -- Calling ahead: cinematic imaginations of mobile media's critical affordances -- Analog analogue: U.S. automotive radio as mobile medium -- CB radio: mobile social networking in the 1970s -- A brief history of U.S. mobile spectrum -- Not TV, not the web: mobile video between openness and control -- Reading after the phone: e-readers and mobile media -- As it happens: mobile communications technology, journalists and breaking news -- Time and space in play: saving and pausing with the Nintendo DS -- You can ring my bell and tap my phone: mobile music, the ringtone -- Appropriation of cell phones by Kurds: the social practice of struggle for political identities in Turkey -- Through the looking cell phone screen: dreams of omniscience in the age of mobile augmented reality.

Portable phones are now miniature multi-media centers that can fit neatly in one's pocket, and media industries of all types are adapting content for these new platforms, or innovating entirely new forms. In the light of this explosive growth, this diverse collection of essays establishes conceptual, critical frameworks for evaluating the latest transformations of the media landscape. Some essays provide historical context, exploring older phenomena, while others unpack the behind-the-scenes-negotiations that determine what kinds of services are available to consumers of the latest technology. This book is a comprehensive road map, enabling examination of the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that are available anywhere at any time. -- from Back Cover.