Universität Zürich Soziologisches Institut der Universität Zürich Prof. Dr. Hans Geser

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Sociology of

the  Mobile Phone

 

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:: Netwoman ::

Abiro - Mobile News

B R I G H T - mobile

Carnival of the Mobilists

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gotomobile

GPSter:Locative

IN-duce.net

Jaikido Blog

Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect

Keitai - Stefanie Krieger

Kiwanja - mobile & development

LinuxDevices.com

m-trends.org

Marikaya - Raimo

Martin's Mobile Technology Page

mediatope II

MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience

MobHappy

Mobile Africa Articles

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Mobile Community Design

Mobile Mentalism

MobileCowboys: Nederlands populairste Mobile weblog

MobileCrunch

mobilemonday at Yahoo! Groups

Molblog - Mobile

Open Gardens

picturephoning.com

Pocket Picks – get more from your phone

Pocketinfo - RSS feed

QuicklyBored

ringtonia.com

Seoul Digital City

SlashPhone

Small Surfaces

Smart Mobs

tarek speaks mobile…

Telecompaper Headlines

Telecomwereld - Nieuws (RSS)

textually.org

TPN - The Mobile Media Show

UsageWatch.org

Wi: Journal of Mobile Media

Wireless Utopia

Wireless Wonders

Xellular Identity by Xen Mendelsohn

 

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Online Texts

Geser, Hans (2007): Patterns of multi-channel communication among older teens - html - pdf
Geser, Hans  (2006): Are girls (even) more addicted? Some gender patterns of cell phone usage - html -   pdf
Geser, Hans  (2006): Pre-teen cell phone adoption: consequences for later patterns of phone usage and involvement - html -   pdf
Geser, Hans (2004): Towards a Sociological Theory of The Mobile Phone
Release 3.0, March 2004  html
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Aftelak, Andrew et. al. (2005): Group Coordination for Mobile Families
Agnelli, Davide et al. (2004): Fashion Victims: an unconventional research approach in the field of mobile communication  pdf
Agre, Philip E. (2001): Changing Places: Contexts of Awareness in Computing. (Human-Computer Interaction 16 (2-3)
Arnold, M. (2003): On the Phenomenology of Technology: the Ianus-faces" of mobile Phones
Australian Psychological Society (2004): Psychosocial aspects of mobile phone use among adolescents
Bachen, Christine (2001): The Family in the Networked Society. 
Barkhuus, Louise (2003): How to Define the Communication Situation: Context Measures in Present Mobile Telephony
Barkhuus, Louise and Anind Dey (2003): Is Context-Aware Computing Taking Control
Away from the User? Three Levels of Interactivity Examined
Barry, Michael and Yu, LiAnne (2002): The Uses and Meaning of I-mode in Japan
Beaton, John and Wajcman, Judy (2004): The Impact of the Mobile Phone in Australia
Berg, Sara; Taylor, Alex and Harper, Richard (2005): Mobile Phones for the Next Generation: Device Designs for Teenagers
Chen, Yi-Fan and Lever, Katie (2005): Relationships among mobile phones, social networks, and academic achievement: A comparison of US and Taiwanese college students
Colbert, Martin (2002): A Diary Study of Rendezvousing: Group Size, Time Pressure and Connectivity
Corino, Gianni (2004): Spatial Issues and Performative Media in Digital Mobility: A Network Perscpective
COST 269 (2002): From Mobile to Mobility:  The Consumption of ICTs and  Mobility in Everyday Life
Crabtree, James et. al. (2003): MobileUK. Mobile Phones and Everyday LifeLife
Crandall, Jordan (2005): Operational Media
Daisuke, Okabe (2004): Emergent Social Practices, Situations and Relations through Everyday Camera Phone Use
Daisuke, Okabe (2004): Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Replacement of Social Contact
Dryer, D.C. (1999): At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems
Döring, Nicola (2001): "1x Brot, Wurst, 5Sack Äpfel I.L.D." Kommunikative Funktionen von Kurzmitteilungen (SMS)
Döring, Nicola (2002): "Kurzm. wird gesendet" – Abkürzungen und Akronyme in der SMS-Kommunikation
Döring, Nicola; Hellwig, Katharina and Klimsa, Paul (2004): Mobile Communication among German Youth
Eagle, Nathan (2006): Inferring Social Network Structure using Mobile Phone Data
Eldrige, Marge and Grinter, Rebecca (2001): Studying Text Messaging in Teenagers
Fagerberg, Petra (2002): Social Awareness in a Location-Based Information System (pdf)
Fortunati, Leopoldina and Manganelli, Anna Maria (2002): Young People and the Mobile Phone
Fox, Kate (2001): Evolution, Alienation and Gossip - The role of mobile telecommunications in the 21st century
Frohlich, David; Chilton, Kathy and Drew, Paul (1997): Remote Homeplace Communication: What is it Like and How Might We Support It? Interaction Technology Department HP Laboratories Bristol
Geser, Hans (2004): Towards a Sociological Theory of The Mobile Phone, Release 3.0, March 2004  html    pdf
Geisler, Cheryl and Golden, Annis (2003): Mobile Technologies at the Boundary of Work and Life
Goetzenbrucker, Gerit (2005): Jugend im Netz? Effekte mobiler Kommunikation im Alltag Jugendlicher. Eine qualitative Studie im Ballungsraum Wien
GRIPIC (2006): Le téléphone mobile aujourd’hui : Usages, représentations, comportements sociaux
Haddon, Leslie G. (2000): The Social Consequences of Mobile Telephony: Framing, Oslo
Haddon, Leslie G. (1998): The Experience of he Mobile Phone
Haddon, Leslie G. (2001): Time and ICTS
Haddon, Leslie G. (2002): Talking without communicating or communicating without talking: from the GSM to the SMS
Haddon, Leslie G. and Hamill, Lynn (2005): The influence of Mobile Phone Users on zthe Design of 3G Products and Serrvices
Deborah Hardwick; Salaff Janet (2003): Managing work-family boundaries: How do teleworkers make it work?
Harper, Richard (2004): People vs. Information: the evolution of mobile technology
Hatton, Les (2004): The rise of consumer price obfuscation in social networks: mobile/cell phone charging
Hedbring, Susanna (2002): Mobile Messaging Usability - Social and pragmatic Aspects
Hille, Koskela (2004): Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile Phones: Empowering Exhibitionism
Höflich, Joachim and Rössler, Patrick (2001): Email für das Handy: SMS-Nutzung durch Jugendliche
Höflich, Joachim / Rössler Patrick (2002): The Mobile Phone and Use of the Short Message Service (SMS) by German Adolescents: Results of a Pilot Study
Höflich, Joachim (2001): Das Handy als „persönliches Medium“. Zur Aneignung des Short Message Service (SMS) durch Jugendliche

Horstmanshof, Louise (2004): Using SMS as a way of providing connection and community for first year students

Hulme, Michael and Peters, Sue (2003): Me, my phone and I: The role of the mobile phone 
Humpfreys Lee (2003): Can you hear me now? A field study of mobile phone usage in public space   pdf
Hurme, Pertti (2005): Mobile Communication and Work Practices in knowledge-based organizations
Isaac, H.; Nickerson, R.C. and Tarasewich, P. (2004): Cell Phone Use in Social Settings - Preliminary Results from a Study in the United States and France
International Telecommunication Union (2004): Shaping the Future Mobile Information Society: The Case of the Kingdom of Norway
International Telecommunication Union (2004): Social and Human Considerations for a Mobile World
International Telecommunication Union (2003): Mobile overtakes Fixed: Implications for Policy and Regulation
Ito, Mizuko (2004): Personal Portable Pedestrian. Lessons from japanese Mobile Phone Use 
Ito, Mizuko, Daisuke, Okabe (2004): Intimate Connections: Contextualizing Japanese Youth and Mobile Messaging
Ito, Mizuko (2004): Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-Placement of Social Contact
Ito, Mizuko (2005): Intimate Visual Co-presence
James, Diana and Drennan, Judy (2005): Explorimng Addictive Consumption of Mobile Phone Technology
Jungnickel, Katrina (2004): Urban Tapestries - sensing the city and other stories
Katz, James E. and Satomi, Sugiyama (2005): Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements
Katz, James E. (2005):  A nation of Ghosts? Choreography of Mobile Communication in Public Spaces
Kindberg, Tim; Spasojevic, Mirjana; Fleck, Rowanne and Sellen, Abigail (2004): How and Why People Use Camera Phones
Kopomaa, Timo (2000): Speaking Mobile: The City in your pocket
Kymäläinen, Pasi (ed.) (2004): mGain - Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture
Lane, Giles (2004): Public Authoring and Civil Society
Larsen, Jonas; Urry, John and Axhausen, Kay (2007): Social Networks and future mobilities
Lasen, Amparo (2002): A comparative Study of Mobile Phone Use in London, Madrid and Paris  
Lasen, Amparo (2005): The Social Shaping of Fixed and Mobile Networks: A Historical Comparison
Laughlin, Z. (2001): Mobile Phone Users: A Small-Scale Observational Study.
Laurier, Eric (2000): Why people say where they are during mobile phone calls. Glasgow
Law, Alex (2005): The social geometry of Mobile Telephony
Levitt, Blake (2000): Cell-Phone Towers and Communities: The Struggle for Local Control
Ling, Rich (2000): Norwegian teens, mobile telephony and SMS-use in School
Ling, Rich (2001): The diffusion of mobile telephony among Norwegian teens: A report from after the revolution.

Ling, Rich (1997) "One can talk about common manners!": the use of mobile telephones in inappropriate situations.” In Haddon, L (ed). Themes in mobile telephony. Final Report of the COST 248 Home and Work group, Telia, Farsta

Ling, Rich and Yttri, Brigitte (1999): "Nobody sits at home and waits for the telephone to ring". Micro and hypercoordination through the use of the mobile telephone
Ling, Rich (2000): "The adoption of mobile telephony among Norwegian teens".
Ling, Rich (2000): “We will be reached’: The use of mobile telephony among Norwegian youth.” Information technology and people 13 (2), 102-120 
Ling, Rich (2001): Adolescent Girls and young adult men: Two subculture of the mobile telephone

Ling, Rich (2000): "The impact of the mobile telephone on four established social institutions." Presented at the ISSEI2000 conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen Norway, 14 – 18 August

Lohan, E Maria (1997): ‘Men, Masculinity and the Domestic Telephone. A Theoretical Framework for studying Gender and Technology'
Logemann, Niels und Feldhaus, Michael (2002): Zwischen SMS und download – Erste Ergebnisse zur Untersuchung der neuen Medien Mobiltelefon und Internet in der Familie
Lorente, Santiago (2002) Youth and Mobile Telephones: More than a fashion
Lorente, Santiago (2002): Communication, urban Space and Mobile Phone
Lowry, Dianne and Moskos, Megan (2005): Hanging on the Mobile Phone. Experiencing Work and Space Flexibility
Mantje-Meijer, Enid and Pires, Doris (2002): SMS Use by young people in the Netherlands
Mante-Meijer, Enid and Ling, Richard (2001): The adoption and use of ICT services in Europe. Potential acceptance of mobile broadband services
Maris, Claire Lobet and Henin, Jaurent (2002): Talking without communicating or communicating without talking: from the GSM to the SMS
McGuigan, Jim (2005): Towards a sociology of the mobile phone
MGAIN (2003): Mobile Entertainment Industry and Culture
Mitrea, Oana Stefana (2006): Understanding the Mobile telephony usage patterns
Nold, Christian (2003): Legible Mob
Nurvitadhi, Eriko (2003): Trends in Mobile Computing: A Study of Mobile Phone Usage in the United States and Japan
Okabe, Daisaku et. al. (2005): Location-Based Moblogging as Method: New Views into the Use and Practice of Persona, Social, and Mobile Technologies
Okabe, Daisaku (2005): Social Practice of Camera Phone in Japan
Oksman, Virpi and Rautiainen, Pirjo (2002): I've got my whole life in may hand
Oulasvirta, Antti (2005): Grounding the Innovation of Future Technologies
Palen, Leysia; Salzmann, Marilyn and Youngs, Ed (2001): Going Wireless: Behavior & Practice of New Mobile Phone Users
Paterson, Andrew (2003): Re-Appropriating Urban Space: Confessions of a Potential Mobile Graffiti-Artist
Paulos, Eric; Anderson, Ken and Townsend, Anthony (2004): UbiComp in the Urban Frontier
Pedersen, Per E. (2002): Adoption of mobile Internet services: An exploratory study of mobile commerce early adopters
Pedersen, Per E. (2003): Adoption of Mobile Services. Model Development and Cross-Service Study
Persson, Per E. and Fagerberg, Petra (2002): GeoNotes: A real-use study of a public location-aware community system
Pertierra, Paul (2005): Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy
Plant, Sadie (2000): On the Mobile, The effect of mobile telephones on social and individual life
Potts, Geoff (2004): College students and Cell phone use. Gender Variation
Prøitz, Lin (2004): The Mobile Gender. A Study of Young Norwegian People’s Gender Performances in Text Messages
Reid, Donna and Reid, Fraser (2004): Insights into the Social and Psychological Effects of SMS Text Messaging
Rice, Ronald E. and Katz, James E. (2003): Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: Digital divides of usage, adoption and dropouts
Rivière, Carole-Anne (2002): Mini-messaging in everyday interactions: a dual strategy for exteriorising and hiding privacy to maintain social contacts
Roos, J. P. (1993): Sociology of cellular telephone: The nordic model (published in Telecommunications policy Vol 17, Nr 6, August 1993 
Roos, J. P. (2001): Postmodernity and Mobile Communications. ESA Helsinki Conference, Aug. 2001
Rudström, Åsa and Höök, Kristina (2003): Designing a Mobile Social Service for a Mall: User Experiences of Kista Galleria
Sawhney, Nitin and Gomez, Herve (2000): Communication Patterns in Domestic Life: Preliminary Ethnographic Study. Dept. of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, University of Paris X Nanterre
Schiano, Diane J. et. al. (2007): Tokyo Youth at Leisure.
Schmidt, Albrecht et. al. (2001): Context Phonebook - extending Mobile Phone Applications with Context
Selian, Audry N. (2004): Mobile Phone and Youth: A Look at the U. S. Student Market ITU
Sheridan, Jennifer G.; Dix, Alan; Lock, Simon and Bayliss. Alice (2004): Understanding Interactions in Ubiquitous Guerilla Performance in Playful Arenas
Smith, Ian et.al. (2005): Social Disclosure of Place: From Location Technology to Communication Practices
Sonnemann, Ingrid (2004): Kommunikation im Wandel, Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks auf die Gesellschaft
de Souza e Silva, Araujo, Adriana (2004): From Multiuser Environments as (virtual) Spaces to (hybrid) Spaces as Multiuser Environments
Sorensen Love, Knut H. (2002): Duty and the S-Curve. An overview of some current literature on gender and ICT
Spohrer, J.C. (1999): Information in Places
Mirjam, Struppek (2002): Interaktionsfeld Öffentlicher Raum im digitalen Zeitalter (pdf)
Süss, D.;  Schlienger A.; Kunz Heim, D.; Basler, B; Böhi, S. and Frischknecht, D. (2003): Merkmale des Medienalltags, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mobilkommunikation
Taylor, Alex S. and Harper, Richard (2002): Talking ‘Activity’: Young People & Mobile Phones
Taylor, Alex S. and Harper, Richard (2002): Age-old practices in the ‘New World’: A study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users
Taylor, Alex S.: Phone Talk  Local Forms of Subversion
Taylor, Alex S. and Harper, Richard (2003): The gift of the gab?: a design oriented sociology of young people’s use of mobiles
Townsend, Anthony M. (2000): “Life in the real-time city: mobile telephones and urban metabolism”. Journal of Urban Technology. (7)2:85-104.
Townsend, Anthony M. (2003): Wired/Unwired: The Urban Geography of Digital Networks
Townsend, Anthony M. (2004): Mobile Communications in the 21st Century City
Truch, Anna and Hulme, Michael (2004): Exploring the implications for social identity of the new sociology of the mobile phone.
Tuters, Marc (2004): The Locative Commons: Situating Location-Based Media in Urban Public Space
Vehovar, Vasja; Belak, Eva; Batagelj, Zenel and Čikić, Sanja (2004): Mobile Phone  Surveys: The Slovenian Case Study
Vershinskaya, Olga (2002): Mobile Communication. Use of Mobile Phones as a Social Phenomenon - The Russian Experience
Villi, Mikko (2007): Mobile Visual Communication. Photo Messages and Camera Phone Photography
Vincent, Jane (2004): Examining mobile phone and ICT use amongst children aged 11 to 16
Wajcman, Judy et. al. (2007):  the Impact of Mobile Phone on Work/Life Balance
Wale, Karen /Gillard, Patricia (1994): Adventures in Cybersound. The Impact of New Telecommunications Services on Family and Social Relations. Melbourne
Wei, Carolin and Kolko, Beth E. (2007): Studying Mobile Phone Use in Context: Cultural, Political, and Economic Dimensions of Mobile Phone Use
Alexandra, Weilenmann (2003): "I can't talk now; I'm in a fitting room."
Weilenmann, Alexandra and Larsson, Catrine (2001): Local Use and Sharing of Mobile Phones
Weilenmann, Alexandra and Larsson, Catrine (2000): Collaborative Use of Mobile Telephones: A Field Study of Swedish Teenagers
Wellman, Barry (1999): The Network Community. An Introduction to  Networks in the Global Village 
Wellman, Berry (2001): Physical Place and CyberPlace. The Rise of Personalized Networking. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25
William, Matthew and Mankins, David (2003): Location Linked Information
World Telecommunication Development Report (2002): ‘Reinventing Telecoms’ & Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2002 ‘Effective Regulation’. (ITU 15.3.02)
Yu, LiAnne; Louden, Gareth and Sacher, Heilo (2002): BuddySync: Thinking Beyond Cell Phones to Create A Third-Generation Wireless Application: for U.S. Teenagers for U.S. Teenagers

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