Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Joi Ito’s sister is apparently “an expert on Japanese youth culture and mobile culture”. She published a book at MIT Press and if Joi himself says he’s “very proud of [his] sister”, I suppose it is a safe guess to promote this here…
The book is an edited collection of social and cultural studies of keitai (mobile phone) and pager use over the past decade or so in Japan. We included our own research as well as research by a variety of mostly Japanese scholars whose work we translated from Japanese.
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life is available at amazon.com and a PDF of a draft of the introduction can be downloaded here.
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