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.