Burce Celik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahcesehir University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University, Canada.

'Grounded in an expansive reading of cultural theory, Celik's approach is both interpretative and humanistic in outlook. Her book will provide a new way for scholars to consider mobile phones as cultural artifacts in whatever national contexts they are working. So even thought the study is grounded in Turkey, it is in many ways more portable than most transnational studies because its grounding allows for such a sophisticated and expansive work' - Jonathan Sterne, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University; 'The questions and the findings of Burce Celik's study drove me to reflect on [these] issues. 'Melancholia', which is one of the key concepts of the study, opens the door to a viewpoint which sees the collective and individual making-sense and communication needs (or desires) which the cellular telephony responds to. This view-point, in addition to being an interpretative door opening to the story of the modernization of Turkey, also enables one to analyze the pre-modern, modern and post-modern transitions, overlaps and simultaneities in general. At the same time, it is a means which holds up a mirror to the transformations of the sentiments and subjectivities in modern times.' - Tanil Bora, Editor of Toplum ve Bilim, and Iletisim Press since 1988, Author of 'Medeniyet Kaybi: Milliyetcilik ve Fasizm Uzerine Yazilar' (2006, Iletisim) [The Loss of Civilization: Notes on Nationalism and Fashism], 'Turkiye'nin Linc Rejimi' (2008, Iletisim) [The Lynch Regime of Turkey]

• 1. Introduction: Cellular Telephony, Imitation, Attachment2. Technology of/in Making a Modern Nation: Melancholic Construct, Melancholic Bodies3. Rethinking the Technoscape and Contextualizing Cellular Telephony in Turkey4. Attachment to Cellular Telephony: Thinking of Meaning, Function and Bodily Relations5. Individual Articulation with Cellular Telephony: Containment, Transference and Translation6. Cellular Telephony as a Social Practice: The Collective Desire for Living in an Open Crowd

Burce Celik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahcesehir University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University, Canada.

'Grounded in an expansive reading of cultural theory, Celik's approach is both interpretative and humanistic in outlook. Her book will provide a new way for scholars to consider mobile phones as cultural artifacts in whatever national contexts they are working. So even thought the study is grounded in Turkey, it is in many ways more portable than most transnational studies because its grounding allows for such a sophisticated and expansive work' - Jonathan Sterne, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University; 'The questions and the findings of Burce Celik's study drove me to reflect on [these] issues. 'Melancholia', which is one of the key concepts of the study, opens the door to a viewpoint which sees the collective and individual making-sense and communication needs (or desires) which the cellular telephony responds to. This view-point, in addition to being an interpretative door opening to the story of the modernization of Turkey, also enables one to analyze the pre-modern, modern and post-modern transitions, overlaps and simultaneities in general. At the same time, it is a means which holds up a mirror to the transformations of the sentiments and subjectivities in modern times.' - Tanil Bora, Editor of Toplum ve Bilim, and Iletisim Press since 1988, Author of 'Medeniyet Kaybi: Milliyetcilik ve Fasizm Uzerine Yazilar' (2006, Iletisim) [The Loss of Civilization: Notes on Nationalism and Fashism], 'Turkiye'nin Linc Rejimi' (2008, Iletisim) [The Lynch Regime of Turkey]

• 1. Introduction: Cellular Telephony, Imitation, Attachment2. Technology of/in Making a Modern Nation: Melancholic Construct, Melancholic Bodies3. Rethinking the Technoscape and Contextualizing Cellular Telephony in Turkey4. Attachment to Cellular Telephony: Thinking of Meaning, Function and Bodily Relations5. Individual Articulation with Cellular Telephony: Containment, Transference and Translation6. Cellular Telephony as a Social Practice: The Collective Desire for Living in an Open Crowd

Burce Celik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Bahcesehir University, Turkey. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University, Canada.

'Grounded in an expansive reading of cultural theory, Celik's approach is both interpretative and humanistic in outlook. Her book will provide a new way for scholars to consider mobile phones as cultural artifacts in whatever national contexts they are working. So even thought the study is grounded in Turkey, it is in many ways more portable than most transnational studies because its grounding allows for such a sophisticated and expansive work' - Jonathan Sterne, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University; 'The questions and the findings of Burce Celik's study drove me to reflect on [these] issues. 'Melancholia', which is one of the key concepts of the study, opens the door to a viewpoint which sees the collective and individual making-sense and communication needs (or desires) which the cellular telephony responds to. This view-point, in addition to being an interpretative door opening to the story of the modernization of Turkey, also enables one to analyze the pre-modern, modern and post-modern transitions, overlaps and simultaneities in general. At the same time, it is a means which holds up a mirror to the transformations of the sentiments and subjectivities in modern times.' - Tanil Bora, Editor of Toplum ve Bilim, and Iletisim Press since 1988, Author of 'Medeniyet Kaybi: Milliyetcilik ve Fasizm Uzerine Yazilar' (2006, Iletisim) [The Loss of Civilization: Notes on Nationalism and Fashism], 'Turkiye'nin Linc Rejimi' (2008, Iletisim) [The Lynch Regime of Turkey]

• 1. Introduction: Cellular Telephony, Imitation, Attachment2. Technology of/in Making a Modern Nation: Melancholic Construct, Melancholic Bodies3. Rethinking the Technoscape and Contextualizing Cellular Telephony in Turkey4. Attachment to Cellular Telephony: Thinking of Meaning, Function and Bodily Relations5. Individual Articulation with Cellular Telephony: Containment, Transference and Translation6. Cellular Telephony as a Social Practice: The Collective Desire for Living in an Open Crowd