Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262090392 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people, in Japan and the United States, and a Professor in Residence at the University of California Humanities Research Institute.Misa Matsuda is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chuo University, Tokyo.Daisuke Okabe is Lecturer at the Graduate School of Media a
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play.The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian describes a mobile universe in which networked relations are a pervasive and persist
"you can read for sociology or business" according to W Boudville. In Japan and Europe, cellphone usage is higher than in the United States. Thus to an American reader, this book can be interesting on several levels. Perhaps as a sociological commentary on how Japanese society has accepted and accomodated the pervasive use of the phones. To an extent not currently seen in much of the US, except possibly amongst teenagers in large cities. The book is a fascinating read of how quickly an technological item has become part of the f. "a deep review on japan keitai/mobile phone culture" according to Tang Xiaojun. This is THE source for understanding japan keitai/mobile culture from early 90s to current. And authors investigate different aspect of keitai in japan life which do help me understand how it is, and why it is.With current issues, Nokia pulls out of japan recently, and iPhone's user are very unhappy about iPhone ( less than 7% iPhone users really like it). All the questions can be answered by this book partially.But this is not a great book by lacking the compare. Good book to learn about Japanese culture Macie Roorda Personal, Portable, Pedestrian is a research book by Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, and Misa Matsuda. Two main points of the book I found interesting were the tracing of history of keitai (cell phones) and the discussion of public and private space and how keitai should be used in public. The book was well written and accomplished what it sets forth to do, which is laid out clearly in the introduction. The two downsides of the book are that it is often repetitive, wh