Books in the Studies in Mobile Communication series

In digitally connected middle-class households with school-going children, from toddlers through to varsity students, the practice of transcendent parenting has arisen. Transcendent Parenting addresses modern parenting in the digital world, and it reveals potential consequences for both parents and children.

From smartphones to tablets, mobile media is increasingly playing a central role in the representation, sharing, and experience of events public and private, formal and informal. Drawing on cross-cultural fieldwork, Haunting Hands considers the role mobile media practices and rituals provide as fundamental insights into contemporary notions of life, death, and loss.

Drawing on ethnographic field work, A Village Goes Mobile examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India. The book investigates how the use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships, including gender relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development.

In Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication, Keri K. Stephens draws on over two decades of research and fieldwork to locate the underlying-and often hidden-issues of control and power that shape how people use mobile phones to communicate while working.

Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the enduring importance of location and, more specifically, the important role that location plays in regards to mobile devices.