Ambient intimacy: A case study of the iPhone, presence, and location-based social media in Shanghai, China

Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 43-62

  Hjorth, Larissa ^a   Wilken, Rowan ^b   Gu, Kay ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c NONE

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EID: 84876564789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203127711     Document Type: Chapter

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