Wonder Phone in the Land of Miracles

This wide-ranging analysis of mobile phone use in Israel is the product of a multiyear project spearheaded by Israeli researchers Akiba Cohen, Dafna Lemish and Amit Schejter. Their volume considers myriad topics, as one might expect given the variety of uses and users of the “wonder phone,” the moniker they aptly apply to the mobile phone. The topics covered range from broad brush strokes of telecom policy issues to detailed analysis of user attitudes and micro-behaviors. The authors' explorations include as well the use of mobile phones after terror bombings and the way teenagers use mobile phones to circumvent parental authority and control. The data gathering methods employed match the diversity of the topics that are tackled. These methods include in-person interviews, ethnographies, broad national surveys, secondary analysis of user-generated network data and unobtrusive observations. Given the diversity of methods and topics, it is no surprise that no tightly organized set of themes emerge; neither are there any syllogistic arguments, heading inexorably toward a coherent and seemingly inescapable conclusion. Rather these studies may be better described as a mosaic of both macro and micro communication behaviors that seek to illuminate the situation in one small but highly variegated society

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