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Themobilecommunicationsociety

Thisresearchreportoffersananalyticaloverviewofexistingresearchonthesocialusesofwirelesscommunicationtechnology.ItseekstoprovideasolidempiricalbasisforaninformeddiscussionofthesocialusesandsocialeffectsofwirelessinEurope,theAsianPacificandtheUnitedStates.Majorthemesexploredincludethedeepconnectionbetweenwirelesscommunicationandtheemergenceofyouthculture,thetransformationoflanguagebytextingandmultimodalty,thegrowingimportanceofwirelesscommunicationinsocio-politicalmobilization,andchangesinthepracticeoftimeandspaceresultingfromwirelesscommunication.

TheauthorswishtoacknowledgethesupportoftheAnnenbergFoundationandoftheAnnenbergSchoolforCommunicationforthepreparationofthisreport.

Wirelesscommunicationtechnologyisdiffusingaroundtheplanetfasterthananyothercommunicationtechnologytodate.Becausecommunicationisattheheartofhumanactivityinalldomains,theadventofthistechnology,allowingmultimodalcommunicationfromanywheretoanywherewherethereistheappropriateinfrastructure,issupposedtohaveprofoundsocialeffects.Yet,whichkindofeffects,underwhichconditions,forwhomandforwhatisanopenquestion.Indeed,weknowfromthehistoryoftechnology,includingthehistoryoftheInternet,thatpeopleandorganizationsendupusingthetechnologyforpurposesverydifferentofthoseinitiallysoughtorconceivedbythedesignersofthetechnology.Furthermore,themoreatechnologyisinteractive,andthemoreitislikelythattheusersbecometheproducersofthetechnologyinitsactualpractice.

Therefore,ratherthanprojectingdreamsandfearsonthekindofsocietythatwillresultinthefuturefromthewidespreaduseofwirelesscommunication,wemustrootourselvesintheobservationofthepresentusingthetraditional,standardtoolsofscholarlyresearch.People,institutions,an