- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark -
3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion -
4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana -
5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China -
6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions -
7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication -
8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt -
9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone -
10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self -
11 The Mobile Phone’s Ring -
12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function -
13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone -
14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control -
15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand -
16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan -
17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action -
18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences -
19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World -
20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly -
21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society -
22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process -
23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel -
24 “Express Yourself” and “Stay Together”: The Middle-Class Indian Family -
25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania -
26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication -
27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment -
28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia -
29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences -
30 Mobile Games and Entertainment -
31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea -
32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects - Afterword
- About the Editor and Authors
- Index
Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment
Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment
- Chapter:
- (p.367) 27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment
- Source:
- Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
- Author(s):
James E. Katz
Katie M. Lever
Yi-Fan Chen
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter focuses on mobile music players and their advantages. It shows how mobile music players such as MP3 players and iPod devices create an image of a person that he or she projects. These technologies are helpful in protecting individuals from not only unpleasant sounds but people as well, although they are helpful in connecting people to their friends. The chapter presents the use of mobile music players by students in creating solutions to online music accessibility by collaborating with their friends and sharing their musical tastes. It states that improvement in wireless music technologies will lead to increased capacity for social connectivity.
Keywords: mobile music players, MP3 players, iPod, online music, wireless music technologies, social connectivity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 The Mobile Makes Its Mark -
3 Shrinking Fourth World? Mobiles, Development, and Inclusion -
4 Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana -
5 Mobile Networks: Migrant Workers in Southern China -
6 Mobile Communication in Mexico: Policy and Popular Dimensions -
7 Reducing Illiteracy as a Barrier to Mobile Communication -
8 Health Services and Mobiles: A Case from Egypt -
9 How the Urban Poor Acquire and Give Meaning to the Mobile Phone -
10 Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self -
11 The Mobile Phone’s Ring -
12 Mobile Technology and the Body: Apparatgeist, Fashion, and Function -
13 The Mediation of Ritual Interaction via the Mobile Telephone -
14 Adjusting the Volume: Technology and Multitasking in Discourse Control -
15 Maintaining Co-presence: Tourists and Mobile Communication in New Zealand -
16 The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan -
17 Mobile Media and Political Collective Action -
18 Mobile Multimedia: Uses and Social Consequences -
19 Mobile Communication and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World -
20 Locating the Missing Links of Mobile Communication in Japan: Sociocultural Influences on Usage by Children and the Elderly -
21 The Effects of Mobile Telephony on Singaporean Society -
22 Mobile Communication and the Transformation of the Democratic Process -
23 Cultural Differences in Communication Technology Use: Adolescent Jews and Arabs in Israel -
24 “Express Yourself” and “Stay Together”: The Middle-Class Indian Family -
25 Nondevelopmental Uses of Mobile Communication in Tanzania -
26 Cultural Studies of Mobile Communication -
27 Mobile Music as Environmental Control and Prosocial Entertainment -
28 Supernatural Mobile Communication in the Philippines and Indonesia -
29 Boom in India: Mobile Media and Social Consequences -
30 Mobile Games and Entertainment -
31 Online Communities on the Move: Mobile Play in Korea -
32 Mainstreamed Mobiles in Daily Life: Perspectives and Prospects - Afterword
- About the Editor and Authors
- Index
