TY - BOOK AU - Katz,James Everett TI - Mobile communication: dimensions of social policy SN - 9781412814683 (alk. paper) U1 - 303.48/33 PY - 2011/// CY - New Brunswick [N.J.] PB - Transaction Publishers KW - Cell phones KW - Mobile communication systems KW - Social policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overview : Surveying the terrain / James E. Katz, Lora Appel, and Amanda McGarry -- Mobile communication and socio-technical change / John Leslie King -- Sustainable early warning systems : HazInfo Sri Lanka / Gordon A. Gow and Nuwan Waidyanatha -- Mobile communication and the environment / Rich Ling and Nisar Bashir -- Mobile phones' role following China's 2008 earthquake / Yun Xia -- Social networks and policy knowledge during the 2008 US Presidential election / Scott W. Campbell and Nojin Kwak -- Mobile-mediated publics in South Africa's 2009 elections / Marion Walton and Jonathan Donner -- EMF social policy and youth mobile phone practices in Canada / Rhonda N. McEwen and Melissa E. Fritz -- Mobile communication policies in the workplace : the case of U.S. state governments / Craig R. Soctt, Hyunsook Youn, and Gillian Bonanno -- ICT use and female migrant workers in Singapore / Minu Thomas and Sun Sun Lim -- Cna you take it with you? Mobility, ICTs and work-life balance / Tracy L.M. Kennedy, Barry Wellman, and Julie Amoroso -- M-enabled learning : the mobile phone's contribution to education / Lourdes M. Portus -- Lifeworld keys and intractable objects : privacy, politics, and mobile symbolic meanings in Italy / Matteo Tarantino -- Mobile political campaigns : the nexus of mass content and private consumption / Chih-Hui Lai -- Disability, mobiles, and social policy : new modes of communication and governance / Gerard Goggin -- Social participation and mobile communication / Leopoldina Fortunati and Anna Maria Manganelli -- Technological rabbits and communication turtles / Irving Louis Horowitz ER -