Living the mobile life

Mobile phones are as symbolic of contemporary modern societies, as pocket watches were when Simmel wrote about Berlin.

This transition corresponds with a shift from punctuality to more fluid ‘networked time’ where ‘punctuality’ is negotiated on the move, so that time, venue and group can change with the next email or text. Whereas trains and pocket watches were early modern twins, mobile phones and cars are the late modern ones, raging against past rhythms and timekeeping of early modernity when transport and mediated communication were unconnected.

thanks to Jonas Larsen, John Urry, Kay Axhausen of Mobile Life, January 4 2007

The authors wonder how many people are already living the mobile life and how this is reflected according to age, gender and other sociodemographic factors.

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