This international, interdisciplinary edited collection explores a range of possible theoretical and empirical approaches to cultural technologies and mobile communication via the use of the iPhone as a case study.

Larissa Hjorth is Senior Lecturer in the Games Programs at RMIT University.

Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Ingrid Richardson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Technologies and Media at Murdoch University, Western Australia.

1. Studying the Mobile: Locating the Field Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson Part I: iPhone as a Cultural Moment 2. The iPhone and Communication Gerard Goggin 3. The iPhone Moment, the Apple Brand and the Creative Consumer: From "Hackability and Usability" to Cultural Generativity Jean Burgess 4. Ambient Intimacy: A case study of the iPhone, Presence, and Location-based Social Networking in Shanghai, China Larissa Hjorth, Rowan Wilken and Kay Gu 5. "In bed with the iPhone"-The iPhone and Hypersociality in Korea Dong-Hoo Lee Part II: iPhone as a Platform and Phenomenon 6. iPhone Photography: Mediating Visions of Social Space Daniel Palmer 7. Between image and information: the iPhone camera in the history of photography Chris Chesher 8. A Logic of Layers: Indexicality of iPhone Navigation in Augmented Reality Nanna Verhoeff 9. Touching the Screen: A Phenomenology of Mobile Gaming and the iPhone Ingrid Richardson Part III: iPhone and Labor 10. The iPhone as an Innovation Platform: Reimagining the Videogames Developer John Banks 11. Network labor: Beyond the shadow of Foxconn Jack Linchuan Qiu 12. iPersonal: A Case Study of the Politics of the Personal Larissa Hjorth 13. Four ways of listening with an iPhone: From sound and network listening, to biometric data and geolocative tracking Kate Crawford 14. How a University Domesticated the iPhone Ilpo Koskinen