The cell phone reader : essays in social transformation / edited by Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux -- Theorizing cell phones -- The little big blender: how the cellphone integrates the digital and the physical everywhere / Paul Levinson -- Interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- The cell phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere / Janey Gordon -- Life in the nomos: stress, emotional maintenance and coordination via the mobile telephone in intact families / Rich Ling -- Robinson piece - Tsunami mobilizations : considering the role of mobile and digital communications devices, citizen journalism, and the mass media / Wendy Robinson and David Robison -- Identity politics and/of/ in the cell phone -- cstng a pwr4l spll: d evolshn f sms / Collette Snowden -- Can you fear me now?: cell phones and the American horror film / Allison Whitney -- Texting the faith: religious users and cell phone culture / Heidi Campbell -- Disabling cell phones / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell -- Do you know the importance of a skypager?: telecommunications, African Americans and popular culture / Davin Heckman -- International perspectives -- Mobile sociality in urban Morocco / Bahiyyih Maroon -- Culture, organization, and contradiction in the social construction of technology: Adoption and use of the cell phone across three cultures / Paul Leonardi, Marianne E. Leonardi, and Elizabeth Hudson -- The cell phone as a cultural technology: lessons from the Indian case / Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha.