Introduction : Framing the issues / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- Finland : a mobile culture / Jukka-Pekka Puro -- Israel : chutzpah and chatter in the Holy Land / Amit Schejter and Akiba Cohen -- Italy : stereotypes, true and false / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Korea : personal meanings / Shin Dong Kim -- United States : popular, pragmatic and problematic / Kathleen A. Robbins and Martha A. Turner -- France : preserving the image / Christian Licoppe and Jean-Philippe Heurtin -- The Netherlands and the USA compared / Enid Mante -- Bulgaria : mobile phones as post-communist cultural icons / Valentin Varbanov -- Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway / Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri -- Mobile culture of children and teenagers in Finland / Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi and Pirjo Rautiainen -- Pretense of intimacy in France / Chantal de Gournay -- Mobile phone consumption and concepts of personhood / Dawn Nafus and Karina Tracey -- The challenge of absent presence / Kenneth J. Gergen -- From mass society to perpetual contact : models of communication technologies in social context / James B. Rule -- Mobiles and the Norwegian teen : identity, gender and class / Berit Skog --The telephone comes to a Filipino village / Georg Strøm -- Beginnings in the telephone / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Conclusion : Making meaning of mobiles -- a theory of Apparatgeist / James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus -- On "opening sequencing" : a framing statement ; Opening sequencing / Emanuel A. Schegloff.