The Editors: Joachim R. Höflich is Professor for Communication Science with a focus on media integration at the University of Erfurt.Georg Florian Kircher, Christine Linke and Isabel Schlote are communication and media researchers at the University of Erfurt.

• Contents: Joachim R. Höflich: Mobile communication and the change of everyday life: a short introduction – Leopoldina Fortunati: A discourse around theories on new media – Richard Harper: Absence to presence: a vision of the communicating human in computer-mediated communications technology research – Joachim R. Höflich/Georg F. Kircher: Moving and lingering: the mobile phone in public space – Isabel Schlote/Christine Linke: Interaction and individual patterns of mobile communication in public places – Amparo Lasén: Mobile media and affectivity: some thoughts about the notion of affective bandwidth – Jane Vincent: Living with mobile phones – Satomi Sugiyama: Fashion and the mobile phone: a study of symbolic meanings of mobile phone for college-age young people across cultures – Matthias Berg: Communicative mobility and mobile work: the management of everyday life and communication networks in a mediatized world – Rich Ling/Pål Roe Sundsøy: The iPhone and mobile access to the internet.