Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Introduction

Ana Serrano Tellería

Part I. Reframing Theories and Methods:

1. The Phases of Mobile Communication Research

Rich Ling

2. Public, no Private in Mobile Communications (towards an Ethics of

Transparency)

Derrick de Kerckhove

Part II. Revisiting Traditional Issues

3. Evolving Patterns of Mobile Call Openings and Closings

Leopoldina Fortunati and Naomi Baron

4. Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life: Skype as a Precursor of Perpetual Visual Contact

James E. Katz and Elisabeth Thomas Crocker

5. Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICTs: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal Spaces

Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano and Ruepert Jiel Cao

Part III. Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space

6. The "Smart" Women: How South Asian Women Negotiate their Social

and Cultural Space through Mobile Technology

Ishita Shruti

7. Inscribing Intimacy: Conceptual Frames for Understanding Mobile Media Affect Amparo Lasén and Larissa Hjorth

8. The Afterlife of Intimacy: Selfies, Loss and Intimate Publics

Larissa Hjorth

Part IV: The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright

9. A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users: Self-Disclosure and Network Homogeneity

Kenichi Ishii

10. Doing things with Content: The Impact of Mobile Application Interface in the Uses and Characterization of Media. Juan Miguel Aguado

Inmaculada J. Martínez and Laura Cañete

11. Copyright and User-Generated Content for Mobile Devices: News,