 | Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Buy new: $34.36 / Used from: $3.36 Collection of papers, many translated from Japanese for the first time [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
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 | The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication by Heather Horst
Buy new: $24.92 / Used from: $20.00 An ethnography of mobile phone use in Jamaica - specialized, but very insightful, especially if you are interested in the dynamics in developing regions [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
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 | The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society (Interactive Technologies) by Rich Ling
Buy new: $32.05 / Used from: $21.39 Nicely-edited summary of Ling's seminal work through 2003 - not just a bunch of separate papers [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED]
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 | Wireless World
Buy used from: $159.98 Collection of papers from the 2000 DWRC Wireless World Conference [RECOMMENDED]
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 | Mobile World: Past, Present and Future (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Buy new: $64.09 / Used from: $55.94 Collection of papers from the 2003 DWRC Wireless World Conference
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 | Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance
Buy new: $29.31 / Used from: $12.68 Collection of papers from the 1st (1999) workshop on mobile communication - "Perpetual Contact" [RECOMMENDED]
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 | Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion
Buy new: $36.04 / Used from: $19.00 Collection of papers from the 2nd (2001) conference on mobile communication - "Mediating the Human Body" (NB: a large fraction of the papers do not relate directly to mobile phones)
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 | Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $20.95 Collection of papers from the 3rd (2001) conference on mobile communication - "Machines Than Become Us" (NB: a large fraction of the papers do not relate directly to mobile phones)
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 | Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Buy new: $109.00 / Used from: $74.55 Collection of papers from the 4th (2003) conference on mobile communication - "Front Stage Back Stage"
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 | Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life by James Katz
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $19.03 Collection of Katz's papers, almost all previously published (albeit in books available overseas - see Amazon.de list at http://www.amazon.de/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/R1Z3YCJXW5XF1R/)
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 | The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices
Buy used from: $107.45 Collection of papers. Several good papers (eg, Steenson & Donner; Ito, Okabe & Anderson)
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 | Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society
Buy new: $27.55 / Used from: $30.85 Collection of papers from a 2004 workshop of the same title
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 | The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Buy new: $107.51 / Used from: $86.69 Collection of papers
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 | The city in your pocket: Birth of the mobile information society by Timo Kopomaa
Buy used from: $17.98 One of the earliest books on mobile phone research (2000, from 1997 fieldwork in Finland)
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 | Mobile Messages: Young People and a New Communication Culture by Elja-Liisa Kasesniemi
Buy used from: $143.81 Another early work in mobile phone research, from the same 1997 fieldwork as Kopomaa but published later
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 | The Cell Phone Reader: Essays in Social Transformation (Digital Formations) by Anandam P. Kavoori
Buy new: $25.46 / Used from: $8.27 Collection of papers - there are a few that I think are interesting (eg, Maroon on Morocco)
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 | Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution and Global Politics) by Manuel Castells
Buy used from: $9.88 Not quite a collection of papers - chapters drawn from the same project and edited together by the investigators
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 | Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
Buy new: $37.60 / Used from: $34.88 [have it, have not read it carefully yet]
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 | New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion by Rich Ling
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.52 [have it, have not read it carefully yet]
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 | Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication (Digital Media and Society) by Rich Ling
Buy new: $19.62 / Used from: $13.77 [have it, have not read it carefully yet]
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 | Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $39.97 |
 | Japanese Cybercultures (Asia's Transformations) by Mark Mclelland
Buy new: $53.56 / Used from: $44.95 Collection of papers, all focuses on Japanese media use (NB: only a couple of the papers relate to mobile phones)
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 | Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
Buy new: $11.84 / Used from: $1.83 General readership. Only one chapter is primarily about mobile phones (SMS) and most of what it says can be found elsewhere, but everybody cites it so you may as well read it
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| Mobile Phone Cultures
Buy new: $36.08 / Used from: $67.35 Collection of papers from Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Volume 21 Issue 2 2007.
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 | Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life by Gerard Goggin
Buy new: $25.79 / Used from: $23.78 Yet another one of those "media studies" volumes that aren't based on field research [NOT RECOMMENDED]
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 | Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything! by Paul Levinson
Buy new: $28.86 / Used from: $0.18 General readership. Says very little that is useful to someone working in the field, though some might find the historical discussion useful [NOT RECOMMENDED]
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 | Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone by Jon Agar
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $0.01 General readership. Says very little that is useful to someone working in the field, though some might find the historical discussion useful [NOT RECOMMENDED]
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 | Mobile Media in the Asia - Pacific: Gender and the Art of Being Mobile by Larissa Hjorth
Buy new: $150.00 / Used from: $140.61 [have not seen this yet]
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| The Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles: Mobile Telephony in Israel (New Media: Policy and Social Research Issues) by Akiba A. Cohen
Buy new: $26.50 / Used from: $31.70 [have not seen this yet]
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 | MOBILE NEW ZEALAND: A Multi-Method Comparative Study of Cell Phone Use by Stephanie Bröge
Buy new: $105.00 [have not seen this yet]
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 | Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World by Naomi S. Baron
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $29.70 [have not seen this yet]
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 | Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness by Mary Chayko
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $34.55 [have not seen this yet]
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 | Less Walk More Talk: How Celtel and the Mobile Phone Changed Africa by Russell Southwood
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $18.69 [have not seen this yet] [appears to be a popular/business book as opposed to research]
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 | You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy by Nicholas P. Sullivan
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.89 [have not seen this yet] [appears to be a popular/business book as opposed to research]
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