Contents -- Preface: Mobile Phone Balloons -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Forgotten Mobile Phone -- 2 DeWitt Clinton's "Grand Salute" versus Technologies of Social Mediation -- 3 "My Idea of Heaven Is a Daily Routine": Coordination and the Development of Mechanical Timekeeping -- 4 "Four-Wheeled Bugs with Detachable Brains": The Constraining Freedom of the Automobile -- 5 "If I Didn't Have a Mobile Phone Then I Would Be Stuck": The Diffusion of Mobile Communication -- 6 "We Are Either Abused or Spoiled by It-It Is Difficult to Say": Constructing Legitimacy for the Mobile Phone -- 7 Mobile Communication and Its Readjustment of the Social Ecology -- 8 "It Is Not Your Desire That Decides": The Reciprocal Expectations of Mobile Telephony -- 9 Digital Gemeinschaft in the Era of Cars, Clocks, and Mobile Phones -- Notes -- References -- Index.