Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century addresses the innovative, unanticipated, and far-reaching ways that mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering how we work, play, and relate to one another. This extraordinary collection of new essays by leading scholars and professionals from a range of disciplines reveals the effects, implications, and future of mobile communication in a reader-friendly balance of theoretical and empirical chapters. Displacing Place is a vital book for students, scholars, professionals, and all readers interested in social and technological trends in the twenty-first century. Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century addresses the innovative, unanticipated, and far-reaching ways that mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering how we work, play, and relate to one another. This extraordinary collection of new essays by leading scholars and professionals from a range of disciplines reveals the effects, implications, and future of mobile communication in a reader-friendly balance of theoretical and empirical chapters. Displacing Place is a vital book for students, scholars, professionals, and all readers interested in social and technological trends in the twenty-first century. Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction 1(6) Sharon Kleinman PART ONE: PLACE AND 'POLIS Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century or ``Everybody, Everywhere, at Any Time'' 7(14) Gary Gumpert Susan J. Drucker Municipal Wi-Fi Comes to Town 21(18) Harvey Jassem Mobility in Mediapolis: Will Cities Be Displaced, Replaced, or Disappear? 39(20) Gene Burd Living and Loving in the Metro/Electro Polis: Understanding the Neurobiology of Attachments in a Society with Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Communication Technologies 59(18) Yvonne Houy Displacing Place with Obsolete Information and Communication Technologies 77(14) Julie Newman PART TWO: MOBILE INNOVATIONS Cyber-crime on the Move 91(14) Matthew Williams Breaking Free: The Shaping and Resisting of Mobility in Personal Information and Communication Technologies 105(18) Julian Kilker Mobile Culture: Podcasting as Public Media 123(18) Jarice Hanson Bryan Baldwin Reach out and Download Something: An Analysis of Cell Phone and Cell Phone Plan Advertisements 141(18) Richard Olsen PART THREE: MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES AT WORK Networks Unleashed: Mobile Communication and the Evolution of Networked Organizations 159(16) Calvert Jones Patricia Wallace Medical Communication: Improving Patient Safety in the Operating Room and Critical Care Unit 175(14) Keith J. Ruskin Therapy at a Distance: Information and Communication Technologies and Mental Health 189(18) Penny A. Leisring 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 207(8) Gary Pandolfi Pumping up the Pace: The Wireless Newsroom 215(10) Andrew Smith Conclusion: Anytime, Any Place: Mobile Information and Communication Technologies in the Culture of Efficiency 225(10) Sharon Kleinman About the Contributors 235(6) Index 241