For data on global communication the International Telecommunications Union 2014 Report The World in 2014 ICT Facts and Figures.
For sociological commentary on some of these trends see:
Baym, N. (2010) Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Cambridge: Polity Press
De Sousa e Silva, A. and Frith, J. (2012) Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces, Abingdon: Routledge
Ling, R. and Donner, J. (2009) Mobile Communication, Cambridge: Polity Press
On the theme of the emotional consequences of mobile communucication, as well as Licoppe’s article on connected presence.
For mobile media and smartphones, specifically the iPhone, as well as the reading by Ash and Wilson, linked to on Moodle, see:
Hjorth, L., Burgess, J. and Richardson, I. (2012) Studying mobile media: cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone, Abingdon: Routledge
Madianou, M. (2014) “Smartphones as Polymedia”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 667-680
Mihailidis, P. (2014) “A tethered generation: Exploring the role of mobile phones in the daily life of young people”, Mobile Media and Communication, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 58-72
Miller, J. (2014) “The fourth screen: Mediatization and the smartphone”, Mobile Media and Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 209-226
On Google Glass, see Google’s own promotional material.
Would you wear them?
On wearable technologies, many such devices were demonstrated at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2014, for example Razer’s Nabu Smart Band.
On the internet of things, or as they put it here the internet of everything, see this presentation by Cisco, one of the leading corporations promoting these technologies.
