Mobile Devices/SMS/Instant Messaging Social Science Research

updated 7 january 2007


Several people asked me (Nalini P. Kotamraju) to share my bibliography-in-progress on social science research about mobile devices, mobile phone uses, SMS/texting, and instant messaging, so here it is. Please feel free to send me cites (in any language) to include. Thanks.
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Full-Length Books (Single Author)

Author Year Title
Agar, J. 2003 Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone. Cambridge, Icon Books
Alderson, M. 1997 Nokia's Book of Mobile Manners. Sydney, Australia, Nokia Communications.
Burgess, A. 2003 Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cadeac, Brigitte and Didier Lauru 2002 Génération téléphone : Les adolescents et la parole. Albin Michel.
Castells, M. et al. 2006 Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective. Cambridge MA: MIT.
Galambos, L. and E. J. Abrahamson 2004 Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gibson, S.W. 1997 Cellular Telephones and Pagers: An Overview. Boston: Newnes.
Galambos, L. and E. J. Abrahamson 2004 Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gow, G., Richard K. Smith 2006 Mobile and Wireless Communications: An Introduction.  Open University Press/McGraw-Hill.
Ito, M., Okabe D., and M. Matsuda 2005 Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. MIT Press.
Katz, James E. 1999 Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers
Katz, James E. 2006 Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life. Transation Publishers.
van Kokswijk, J. 2003 Hum@n, Telecoms & Internet as Interface to Interreality. Bergboek
van Kokswijk, J. 2003 Architecture of a Cyberculture, 2003, in Dutch with extended English summary. Bergboek.
Kopomaa, T. 2000 The City in Your Pocket
Koskinen, I., E. Kurvinen and L. Turo-Kimmo 2002 Mobile Image. Helsinki: IT Press
Ling, R. 2004 The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
Myerson, G, 2001 Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone. Cambridge, Icon Books.
Pertierra, R,, Ugarte E, Pingol, A., Hernandez, J. and N. Dacanay 2002 TXT-ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity. De La Salle University Press, Manila, Philippines.
Pistolesi, E. 2004 Il parlar spedito. L'italiano di chat, e-mail e SMS. Padova, Esedra.
Rheingold, H. 2002 Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Cambridge: Perseus.
Rippon, A. and A. Ward 2000 I'm On Me Mobile. London: Robson Books.

Edited Books

Author Year Title
Brown, Barry, Nicola Green and Richard Harper (Eds.) 2001 Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age. London, Springer.
Cooper, Geoff, Nicola Green, and Richard Harper (Eds.) 2005 The Mobile Society. Berg.
Fortunati L., J. E. Katz and R. Riciini (Eds.) 2003 Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication and Fashion. Lea.
Glotz, P. Bertschi, S. and C. Locke (Eds.) 2005 ` Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society. Verlag.
Haddon, L. (Ed.) 1997 Communications on the Move: The Experience of Mobile Telephony in the 1990s. COST248 Report.
Harper, R., Palen, L. and A. Taylor (Eds.) 2005 The Inside Text : Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS. Springer.
Höflich, J. R. und J Gebhardt (Hrsg.) 2005 Mobile Kommunikation: Perspektiven und Forschungsfelder. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Höflich, J. R. und J. Gebhardt (Eds.) 2003 Vermittlungskulturen im Wandel. Brief - E-Mail - SMS. [Changing Cultures of Mediation. Letter - E-Mail - SMS]. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Katz, J. E., (Ed.) 2003 Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology. New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers.
Katz, J. E. and M. Aakhus (Eds.) 2002 Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, and Public Performance. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Lindholm, C. Keinonen T. and Kiljander H. (Eds.) 2003 Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone. McGraw-Hill.
Ling, R. and Pedersen, P. (Eds.). 2005 Mobile communications: The re-negotiation of the social sphere. London: Springer.
Nyíri, K. (Ed.) 2003 Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects. Vienna, Passagen Verlag.
Nyíri, K. (Ed.) 2003 Mobile Democracy. Essays on Society, Self and Politics. Vienna, Passagen Verlag
Nyíri, K. (Ed.) 2001 Mobil információs társadalom: Tanulmányok [The Mobile Information Society: Essays], Budapest: MTA Filozófiai Kutatóintézete. http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/ twovolumes .htm
Robison, R. and Goodman, D.S. (Eds.) 1996 The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonald's and Middle-class Revolution. Routledge.

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