Mobile Communication and the Family
Sun Sun . Ed(S): Lim
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Hardback. Editor(s): Lim, Sun Sun. Series: Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 colour illustrations, 4 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTC; JFC; JFF; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 473.
This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change. This book analyses the interactions of these two contemporaneous trends from ... Read more
This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the crossroads of technological transformation and social change. This book analyses the interactions of these two contemporaneous trends from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401774390
SKU
V9789401774390
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About Sun Sun . Ed(S): Lim
Sun Sun Lim (PhD, LSE) is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media and Assistant Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She studies the social implications of technology domestication by young people and families, charting the ethnographies of their Internet and mobile phone use. Her recent research has focused attention ... Read more
Reviews for Mobile Communication and the Family
“The book clarifies the importance of mobile connectivity among a variety of immigrant groups, making the book relevant well beyond Asia. … The book’s greatest strengths are that it extends the focus of migration and mobile communication research from North America and Europe to Asia, and that it takes seriously the understudied groups of migrants. … the book aids understanding ... Read more