Displacing Place

Contents: Sharon Kleinman: Introduction - Gary Gumpert/Susan J. Drucker: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century or «Everybody, Everywhere, at Any Time» - Harvey Jassem: Municipal Wi-Fi Comes to Town - Gene Burd: Mobility in Mediapolis: Will Cities Be Displaced, Replaced, or Disappear? - Yvonne Houy: Living and Loving in the Metro/Electro Polis: Understanding the Neurobiology of Attachments in a Society with Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Communication Technologies - Julie Newman: Displacing Place with Obsolete Information and Communication Technologies - Matthew Williams: Cyber-crime on the Move - Julian Kilker: Breaking Free: The Shaping and Resisting of Mobility in Personal Information and Communication Technologies - Jarice Hanson/Bryan Baldwin: Mobile Culture: Podcasting as Public Media - Richard Olsen: Reach out and Download Something: An Analysis of Cell Phone and Cell Phone Plan Advertisements - Calvert Jones/Patricia Wallace: Networks Unleashed: Mobile Communication and the Evolution of Networked Organizations - Keith J. Ruskin: Medical Communication: Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room and Critical Care Unit - Penny A. Leisring: Therapy at a Distance: Information and Communication Technologies and Mental Health - Gary Pandolfi: But You Don't Play with the Mobile Information and Communication Technologies You Already Have: An Instructional Technologist's View of Teaching with Technology in Higher Education - Andrew Smith: Pumping up the Pace: The Wireless Newsroom - Sharon Kleinman: Conclusion: Anytime, Any Place: Mobile Information and Communication Technologies in the Culture of Efficiency.

The Editor: Sharon Kleinman is Professor of Communications at Quinnipiac University. Her research focuses on the history and social implications of communication technologies and on issues concerning online and place-based communities. She holds a B.A. in English and American literature from Brandeis University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University.