Perpetual contact: mobile communication, private talk, public performance
Perpetual contact: mobile communication, private talk, public performance
Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion
Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society
Everyday Innovators: Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
New Technologies in Global Societies
New Technologies in Global Societies
Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life
Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life
The social representation of telecommunications
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Introduction to the Special Issue on Mobile Societies in Asia-Pacific
The Information Society
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media
Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media
New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
Mobile phone accessibility values for users with disabilities
International Journal of Mobile Communications
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China is the primary market for the mobile phone (with almost 700 million of these devices) and one of the world's leading countries in ICT production. Inside Mainland China, the capital Beijing and the other coastal industrialized towns have been the first to adopt and appropriate the mobile phone. Until now a certain amount of qualitative research has been devoted to the study of ICTs in China. However, quantitative studies are scarce. Here we present the results of a research based on empirical data specifically focused on mobile communication and carried out in Beijing. A structured questionnaire was personally administered to 487 respondents. This study investigates mobile phone use, its implementation in public spaces, attitudes towards its increasing complexity, opinions on its advantages and disadvantages, and its status in comparison to other technologies of information, communication and mass media in the capital of Mainland China. One main result of this study is that a very positive image of the mobile phone among our respondents was accompanied by only two disadvantages: its being a threat to privacy and its presenting the logistical problem that there is no obvious means to carry it. This latter concern should send a strong message to the fashion industry: the diffusion of the mobile phone has worsened the problem of how to wear these ''little essential objects'', which up to now still continues to be unresolved.