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Unintentionally overhearing a phone call while on a train, being advised to turn off one’s cell phone in a cinema, or watching on the TV serials “Gilmore Girls” Lorelai Gilmore calling her daughter Rory on her mobile phone—these examples highlight the way in which mobile communication has become a part of our everyday lives. The mobile phone, originally designed solely as a telephone, is a cluster of innovations today. Consequently, to only analyze the adoption or rejection of these innovations is no longer sufficient: it is necessary to examine the process in which these innovations are integrated into the user’s everyday life.
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Karnowski, V. (2012). Symbolic Models of Mobile Phone Appropriation. In: Martin, C., von Pape, T. (eds) Images in Mobile Communication. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93190-6_9
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