Martin C., von Pape T. (eds.) Images in Mobile Communication. New Content, New Uses, New Perspectives

VS Research, 2012. — 204 p.This volume provides an original perspective on mobile communication, focusing on the emerging deployment of images in mobile phone usage: photography, video, mobile television, mobile internet, etc. Deeply embedded in our audiovisual culture, images possess the undeniable power to reshape the future of the mobile phone as an "individual mass medium" In this collection, European researchers in media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology and political science present empirical and conceptual work on a wide range of issues, including cultural change, new forms of sociability on individual and societal levels, tactics and strategies of users and producers, and finally, representations and imaginaries of the mobile phone in other established media. This book is written for researchers and students of sociology, communication studies and cultural studies as well as for practitioners of interactive media and online communication.Part I The Production of Photography in the Users’ Hands?
Images in Mobile Uses: A New “Middle-brow Art”?
Visual Mobile Phone Content and Developmental Challenges. The Mediatization of Social Relationships in Adolescence
Celebration and Concern. Digitization, Camera Phones and the Citizen-Photographer
Part II Strategies and Tactics at the Advent of Mobile Images
Revolution in Journalism? Mobile Devices as a New Means of Publishing
Which Place for Mobile Television in Everyday Life? Evidence from a Panel Study
The Appropriation of Mobile TV through Television Preferences and Communication Networks
Part III Images and Representations of Mobile Communication
Images and Representations of the Mobile Internet
Symbolic Models of Mobile Phone Appropriation. A Content Analysis of TV Serials
The Image of Youth in Mobile Phone Advertising