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There will be weekly readings. This is a reading-intensive course in which you will be asked to deal with material that is often quite challenging in its language and theoretical positions. You should expect to read about two academic journal articles or book chapters a week. You are responsible for not only reading all the material assigned to you, but engaging with it before class in a way that prepares you to participate in class discussion. In order to do this, you will need to take careful reading notes and review your notes before each class. The readings shall be used not only for class discussion, but also to support your arguments on the group´s presentations, creative project and final paper.

All course readings with the exception of the ones contained in the required textbook can be found in the course compendium available at the bookstore.

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Textbook:

MCS: Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Qiu, J. L., & Sey, A. (2007). The mobile communication society: A global perspective. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Also available online at http://arnic.info/WirelessWorkshop/MCS.pdf (this is the pre-publication version of the book). Retrieved June 06, 2009.

Required Readings:

Brewer, J., & Dourish, P. (2008). Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.03.003.

Campbell, S. (2006). Perceptions of mobile phones in college classrooms: Ringing, cheating and classroom policies", Communication Education, 55 (3), 280-294.

Curwen, P., & Whalley, J. (2008). "Structural adjustment in the Latin American and African mobile sectors". Telecommunications Policy, 32, 349-363.

de Souza e Silva, A, & Frith, J. (in press). Locative mobile social networks: Mapping communication and location in urban spaces. Mobilities, 5 (4).

de Souza e Silva, A., Sutko, D. M., Salis, F., & de Souza e Silva, C. (in press). Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Media & Society, 12 (1).

Delacruz, G., Chung, G. K. W. K., & Baker, E. (2009). Findimg a place: Developments of location-based mobile gaming in learning and assessment environments. In A. de Souza e Silva, & D. M. Sutko (Eds.), Digital Cityscapes: Merging digital and urban playspaces (pp. 251-268). New York: Peter Lang.

Farley, T. (2005). Mobile telephone history. Telektronikk, 3 (4), 22-34.

Goggin, G. (2006). Making voice portable: The early history of the cell phone. In Cell phone culture: Mobile technology in everyday life (pp. 19-40). New York: Routledge.

Goggin, G. (2006). Next gen mobile: 3G, 4G, and the return of location. In Cell phone culture: Mobile technology in everyday life (pp. 187-204). New York: Routledge.

Greenfield, A. (2006). Section I: What is everyware? in Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (pp. 9-34). Berkeley, CA: New Riders.

Greenfield, A. (2006). Section II: How is everyware different from what we're used to? in Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (pp. 35-88). Berkeley, CA: New Riders.

James, J, & Versteeg, M. (2007). Mobile phones in Africa: How much do we really know? Social Indicators Research, 84 (1), 117-126.

Javaid, U., Rasheed, T., Meddour, D. E., Ahmed, T., & Prasad, N. R. (2008). A novel dimension of cooperation in 4G. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 27 (1), 29-40.

Kato, H. (2005). Japanese youth and the imagining of keitai. In Ito, M., Okabe, D., & Matsuda, M. (Eds.), Personal, portable, pedestrian: Mobile phones and the Japanese life (pp. 103-119). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Katz, J., & Sugiyama, S. (2008). Mobile phones as fashion statements: Evidence of student surveys in the US and Japan. New Media & Society, 8 (2), 321-337.

Ling, R. & Yttri, B. (2002). Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway. In Katz, J. and
Aakhus, M. (eds.) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Perusco, L., & Michael, K. (2007). Control, trust, privacy, and security: Evaluating location-based services. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 26 (1), 4-16.

Recommended Readings:

Brewer, J., & Dourish, P. (2008). Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.03.003.