A collection of essays establishes conceptual, critical frameworks for evaluating the latest transformations of the media landscape. It is a comprehensive road map, enabling both scholars and students to examine the social, cultural, and commercial implications of media that are available anywhere at any time.

Contents: Noah Arceneaux/Anandam Kavoori: Introduction: Mapping Mobile Media – Jason Farman: Historicizing Mobile Media: Locating the Transformations of Embodied Space – Scott W. Ruston: Calling Ahead: Cinematic Imaginations of Mobile Media’s Critical Affordances – Matthew A. Killmeier: Analog Analogue: U.S. Automotive Radio as Mobile Medium – Noah Arceneaux: CB Radio: Mobile Social Networking in the 1970s – Thomas W. Hazlett: A Brief History of U.S. Mobile Spectrum – Aymar Jean Christian: Not TV, Not the Web: Mobile Video Between Openness and Control – Gerard Goggin/Caroline Hamilton: Reading After the Phone: E-readers and Mobile Media – Collette Snowden: As It Happens: Mobile Communications Technology, Journalists and Breaking News – Samuel Tobin: Time and Space in Play: Saving and Pausing with the Nintendo DS – Ben Aslinger: You Can Ring My Bell and Tap My Phone: Mobile Music, the Ringtone Economy, and the Rise of Apps – Burçe Çelik: Appropriation of Cell Phones by Kurds: The Social Practice of Struggle for Political Identities in Turkey – Imar de Vries: Through the Looking Cell Phone Screen: Dreams of Omniscience in an Age of Mobile Augmented Reality.

«In ‘The Mobile Media Reader’, Noah Arceneaux and Anandam Kavoori bring together a fine collection of essays on the history, design, and affordances of mobile communication. In particular, the historical material adds a needed dimension to the study of this rapidly growing phenomenon.» (Rich Ling, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) «An up-to-date, insightful anthology about the devices we carry in our pockets, which connect us not only to each other but to the burgeoning cosmos of information which is the Web. If you’d like this ongoing revolution placed in historical context and pitched into our future, pick up this book.» (Paul Levinson, Fordham University; Author of ‘Cellphone: The Story of the World’s Most Mobile Medium and New New Media’)