Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Reframing Theories and Methods; 1 The Phases of Mobile Communication Research; 2 Mobile Culture in Singapore: From Democrature to Datacracy; PART II: Revisiting Traditional Issues; 3 Evolving Patterns of Mobile Call Openings and Closings; 4 Visual Interpersonal Communication in Daily Life: Skype as a Precursor of Perpetual Visual Contact; 5 Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICT: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal Spaces PART III: Delving into the Intimacy Sphere, the Social and the Cultural Space6 The "Smart" Women: How South Asian Women Negotiate Their Social and Cultural Space through Mobile Technology; 7 Inscribing Intimacy: Conceptual Frames for Understanding Mobile Media Affect; 8 The Afterlife of Intimacy: Selfies, Loss, and Intimate Publics; PART IV: The Performance of the Self, the Mobile Content and the Copyright; 9 A Comparative Study between Japanese, US, Taiwanese, and Chinese Social Networking Site Users: Self-Disclosure and Network Homogeneity 10 Doing Things with Content: The Impact of Mobile Application Interface in the Uses and Characterization of Media11 Copyright and User-Generated Contents for Mobile Devices: News, Entertainment, and Multimedia; PART V: The New Generations on the Mobile Ecosystem; 12 Educating for Privacy in the Digital and Mobile Ecosystems: Toward a Proposed Syllabus; 13 Sociability, Smartphones, and Tablets; 14 The Mobile Generation and Instagram Photography; PART VI: The Empowered User and the Media; 15 Active Audiences: User Participation in Online Media Content 16 Hashtag Wars and Networked Framing: The Private/Public Networked Protest Repertoires of Occupy on Twitter17 Structural Crises of Meaning and New Technologies: Reframing the Public and the Private in the News Media through the Expansion of Voices by Social Networks; 18 A Starting Path for a Great Future; List of Contributors; Index.

Mobile devices’ impact on daily life has raised relevant questions regarding public and private space and communication. Both the technological environment (operating systems, platforms, apps) and media ecosystems (interface design, participatory culture, social media) influence how users deal with the public and private, intimate and personal spheres. Leading researchers in communication, art, computer engineering, education, law, sociology, philosophy, and psychology here explore current methodologies for studying the dichotomy of the public and private in mobile communication, providing a foundation for further research.