This international, interdisciplinary edited collection explores a range of possible theoretical and empirical approaches to cultural technologies and mobile communication via the use of the iPhone as a case study.

Selected Contents: 1. Studying the Mobile: Locating the Field Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson Part 1: iPhone as a Cultural Moment 2. The iPhone and Communication Gerard Goggin 3. The iPhone Moment, the Apple Brand and the Creative Consumer: From "Hackability and Usability" to Cultural Generativity Jean Burgess 4. Ambient Intimacy: A case study of the iPhone, Presence, and Location-based Social Networking in Shanghai, China Larissa Hjorth, Rowan Wilken and Kay Gu 5. "In bed with the iPhone"—The iPhone and Hypersociality in Korea Dong-Hoo Lee Part 2: iPhone as a Platform and Phenomenon 6. iPhone Photography: Mediating Visions of Social Space Daniel Palmer 7. Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography Chris Chesher 8. A Logic of Layers: Indexicality of iPhone Navigation in Augmented Reality Nanna Verhoeff 9. Touching the Screen: A Phenomenology of Mobile Gaming and the iPhone Ingrid Richardson Part 3: iPhone and Labor 10. The iPhone as an Innovation Platform: Reimagining the Videogames Developer John Banks 11. Network labor: Beyond the shadow of Foxconn Jack Linchuan Qiu 12. iPersonal: A Case Study of the Politics of the Personal Larissa Hjorth 13. Four ways of listening with an iPhone: From sound and network listening, to biometric data and geolocative tracking Kate Crawford 14. How a University Domesticated the iPhone Ilpo Koskinen

"Through a review of theories past and present, as well as various case studies into already visible change, this book lays a foundation for further scholarship in mobile media and sociotechnical query in general. Because of its focus on the iPhone as a context, the text has a grounding and certain familiarity that will likely give it wide appeal." -- Zack O'Leary, University of Edinburgh, review in First Monday