Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication in the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests focus on mobile media, Internet, disability, media history and policy. Previous publications include Internationalizing Internet Studies (2009), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (with Larissa Hjorth, 2009), Mobile Phone Cultures (2008), Mobile Media (with Larissa Hjorth, 2007), Cell Phone Culture (2006) and Digital Disability (2003).

Global Mobile Media offers an overview of the complex topic of mobile media, looking at the emerging industry structures, new media economies, mobile media cultures and network politics of mobiles as they move centre-stage in media industries.

@contents: Selected Contents: List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Mobiles as global media Part I Mobiles and the New Media Economies Chapter 2. Power and mobile media: structures, networks, and control Chapter 3. Cultural economy of mobiles: new relations of production and consumption Part II Mobile Media Cultures Chapter 4. Mobile music: ringtones, music players, and the sound of everything Chapter 5. The mobile invention of television: post-broadcasting and audiovisual politics Chapter 6. Mobile gaming: playing the portable Chapter 7. Mobile Internet: new social technologies Part III Politics of Mobile Media Networks Chapter 8. The computer, the Internet, and the mobile: the case of the iPhone Chapter 9. The mobile commons? Open networked cultures beyond the politics of code Chapter 10. Conclusion: Culture garden - for mobile media futures Notes Bibliography Index