America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance
Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance
Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age
Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age
The Mobile Phone: An Identity on the Move
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland
Perpetual contact
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Ethnography of the telephone: changing uses of communication technology in village life
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Degrees of sharing: proximate media sharing and messaging by young people in khayelitsha
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Conducting ethical research with a game-based intervention for groups at risk of social exclusion
ICEC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing
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In the last few decades physical mobility has become one of the key elements of contemporary societies. This centrality of mobility also means the development of a new kind of social exclusion caused by the problems of living in a social context in which one has to be increasingly "on the move" to access goods and services. In this article, based on fieldwork conducted with 20 low-income family inhabitants of the city of Santiago, Chile, we study the role that mobile phone usage has in relation to physical mobility in the everyday lives of these individuals. Through an analysis of the pattern of usage and mobility of these devices, we arrive at the conclusion that rather than giving rise to an experience of constant mobility and "anytime-anywhere" availability, the individuals studied face limitations and exclusions that profoundly constrict the potential "mobility" afforded by these devices.