Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Ana Serrano Tellería is Assistant Professor at University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain; a Postdoctoral Researcher at LabCom.IFP, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; Media Consultant, R+D+i Project Manager; and a journalist and performer.

• IntroductionAna Serrano TelleríaPart I. Reframing Theories and Methods:1. The Phases of Mobile Communication ResearchRich Ling2. Public, no Private in Mobile Communications (towards an Ethics ofTransparency)Derrick de KerckhovePart II. Revisiting Traditional Issues3. Evolving Patterns of Mobile Call Openings and Closings Leopoldina Fortunati and Naomi Baron4. Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life: Skype as a Precursor of Perpetual Visual ContactJames E. Katz and Elisabeth Thomas Crocker5. Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICTs: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal SpacesCheryll Ruth R. Soriano and Ruepert Jiel CaoPart III. Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space6. The "Smart" Women: How South Asian Women Negotiate their Socialand Cultural Space through Mobile TechnologyIshita Shruti7. Inscribing Intimacy: Conceptual Frames for Understanding Mobile Media Affect Amparo Lasén and Larissa Hjorth8. The Afterlife of Intimacy: Selfies, Loss and Intimate PublicsLarissa HjorthPart IV: The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright9. A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users: Self-Disclosure and Network HomogeneityKenichi Ishii10. Doing things with Content: The Impact of Mobile Application Interface in the Uses and Characterization of Media. Juan Miguel AguadoInmaculada J. Martínez and Laura Cañete11. Copyright and User-Generated Content for Mobile Devices: News,