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Looking for the "Where" and "Who" of Our Communications
From Identity to Identification
The Chronic Symptoms of Our Time
Wasting Time to Save Time
Technologies in the Rear-View Mirror
Synchrony, Asynchrony, Polychrony
Communication: Between Noise and Silence
Social Actors: Locations and Links
2. Speaking Objects, Acting Words: New Communication Practices
Technologies and Everyday Construction of Culture
Technologies as Statements: The Performative Force of Social Objects
Technologies That Make Us Do
The Contemporary "Nutcracker": The Cascade Effect and the Interrelation of Technologies
Reflexivity at Play: The Interaction between Technology and Culture
The Discursive Origin of the Meaning of Things
Common Sense, Technologies, and Daily Life
Doing with Words: Language, Interaction, and Culture
Individual Sense-Making and Dominant Discourse
Discourse on Technologies as a Meaning-Making Device
3. Life Stories of Technologies in Everyday Life
How to Domesticate Technology
Life Stories of Technological Objects
Geographically Migrating Technologies
Unexpected Uses: When New Technologies Perform Old Functions
A Cascade of Adoptions and a Cascade of Communications
From Communicating Something Urgent to the Urgency of Communicating: Reasons for Adoption and Anticipated Uses
4. Now Playing: Mobiles, Discourses, and Advertising
Discourses of the Past and Simple Future
Kitsch and Discriminatory Humour
Communicating at Any Price and All Cost
All Included, Even Friends?
Differences in Similarity
Mobile for Every Situation
5. Language, Interaction, and Mobile Culture: Field Research among Teenagers
New Rites of Passage: Technology Ownership as Symbolic Threshold
Linguistic Creativity and Cultural Innovation
Teenagers' Mobile Culture: The Shaping Role of Everyday Discourse
Making the Familiar Strange: A Chronology of Field Research
Culture in Action: Adolescents as Cultural Translators
Naturally Occurring Mobile Conversations: Social and Cultural Microcosms
6. Displaying Identities in Urban Space: How Do Young People Talk on Mobile Phones?
Telephone Conversations as Linguistic Patchworks
"Bad" Language and New Technologies: An Identity-Producing Synergy
Crossing Linguistic Boundaries: Cultural Identity on the Mobile
Cultural References in Teenagers' Mobile Conversations
Belonging to a Community of Practices: Geek Language and Culture
Crossing Words and Cultures by Mobile Phone
7. Mobile Culture in Everyday Life: Teenagers Talking on Their Mobiles
Making Sense of Space: Where Do Young People Talk on Their Mobile Phones?
Repertoire of Cultural Reasons: Technologies and Teenagers' Laziness
Domesticating Technologies: Vegging, Doing Nothing, and Talking on the Mobile
Breaking the Rules: The Implicit Logic of Mobile Phone Use
"Being a Couple": Maps of Everyday Life and Simulacra of Proximity
Live Narrating of Everyday Life: Storytelling on the Mobile Phone
Mobile Phone Use as a Friendship-Building Activity
Guess Where I Am: Derealization as a Social Game
Borrowed Calls and Co-Conversations
Saturday Night: Telephone Organization or Social Control?
Who Is Where Tonight: The Mobile Phone as a Panoptikon
The Ritual Meeting: Micro-Organization through Mobile Calls
Domestication of a Technology and Cultural Changes
8. SMS in Everyday Life: Ethnography of a Secret Language
Text-Messaging in Peer Culture: A Field Study
The Secret Language of SMS
Inventing a Code: Mini-Messages as Secret Handshakes
Hidden Communication: SMS in Teens' Underground Life
The Thumb Generation: SMS Conversations
Text-Messaging as an Interactive Phenomenon: Social Organization and Linguistic Creativity
Putting Everyday Life into Words: Gossiping in SMS
Verbal Performances: Flirting in SMS
Teenagers' Techno-Language across Contexts
9. Intergenerational Communication: Changes, Constants, and New Models
The ON Generation versus the OFF Generation
Co-Construction of Family Boundaries by Technology
Listen to Your Father and Mother, or Your Mobile?
The Mobile Phone: Tool for Transgression?
10. Mobile Communication as Social Performance: New Ethics, New Politeness, New Aesthetics
Storytelling about Technologies: Urban Legends and Personal Narratives
Telephone Conversation as Social Performance
New Ethics for New Social Encounters
Politeness Rules: Manners for Mobile Use
Biomorphism or Sociomorphism? Emboding New Communication Technologies
New Aesthetics or New Self-Perceptions?
Between Globalization and Localization: A Few Conclusive Notes
