Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective

By Anandam Kavoori. 2009

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The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure (2009, background): “Worldwide there are now over 1.7b mobile phone accounts, 600mmore mobilephones than fixed lines (Castells et al., 2007).”
Social media and migration: Virtual community 2.0 (2011, background): “…recently, it has been suggested that ‘networked individualism’ should be rephrased as ‘networked sociability’, since new technologies not only facilitate ego-centered networks, but can also support peer-group formation, thus enabling community formation as well (Castells et al., 2006, p. 143-144).”
Using online social networking for teaching and learning: Facebook use at the University of Cape Town (2009, background): “com, have experienced surging popularity, particularly among youth who use these new technologies to create instant communities of practice (Castells 2007).”
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “The idea of social death is particularly strong in the context of dementia and in relation to care homes, which remain stigmatised as places where the old are abandoned (Johnson et al .”