Mobile Communication

Scott W. Campbell is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and Pohs Fellow of Telecommunications at the University of Michigan, and will be an associate professor in the fall of 2011. Rich Ling, Ph.D., is a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and is a researcher at Telenor’s research institute in Norway. He has also been the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan.

• 1. Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart 2. Mobile Symbiosis: A Precursor to Public Risk-Taking Behavior? 3. Mobile Specters of Intimacy: A Case Study of Women and Mobile Intimacy 4. (Im)mobile Mobility: Marginal Youth and Mobile Phones in Beijing 5. Mobiles Are Not That Personal: The Unexpected Consequences of the Accountability, Accessibility, and Transparency Afforded by Mobile Telephony 6. Mobile Communication in Intimate Relationships: Relationship Development and the Multiple Dialectics of Couples’ Media Usage and Communication 7. Bonds and Bridges: Mobile Phone Use and Social Capital Debates 8. Extended Sociability and Relational Capital Management: Interweaving ICTs and Social Relations 9. Network and Mobile Sociality in Personal Communities: Exploring Personal Networks of ICT Users 10. There’s an Off-line Community on the Line! 11. Mobile Social Networking: Learning from Tourists’ Use of CB Radio in the Australian Outback 12. Generation Disconnections: Youth Culture and Mobile Communication 13. Interpersonal Communication beyond Geographical Constraints: A Case of College Students Who Maintain Geographically Dispersed Relationships Their Impact on Social Cohesion 15. Conclusion: Connecting and Disconnecting through Mobile Communication