May 19, 2003

Mobile e-Mail Study

Picked up on Smart Mobs, this interesting report entitled "Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use" written by Anthropologist Mimi Ito with Daisuke Okabe. This ethnographic study of keitai users in the greater Tokyo area outlines the social patterns emerging through the use of mobile email, the dominant application for the mobile Internet in Japan.